Word: russian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...money for his industrialization program. He has turned the screw of direct taxation on the Kulak. With varying harshness in varying districts he has forced peasant and Kulak to sell their grain to the State at prices fixed by it-low prices. Most of this grain is consumed in Russian cities, but Stalin's policy is to sell as much as possible abroad. Profits from grain and nearly all other kinds of export sales to go, of course, entirely to the State Monopoly-entirely into the State Treasury-and thus provide cash for such vast industrialization projects...
...Robbing Russian Markets. Enters at this point the fact that, despite the intensive grain growing of this year, unfavorable weather conditions brought down the national crop to a bare sufficiency for Russia's own grain needs. There were even scareheads in the U. S. press, last fortnight, that the Soviets faced a famine and would have to start buying U. S. grain. To spike this rumor up rose potent Saul G. Bron, Super-Purchasing & SuperSelling Agent of the Soviet State in Manhattan. Mr. Bron is large, untidy, jovial, shrewd and bland. He is a University of Zurich...
From the standpoint of the world market there is none; but from the Russian internal market standpoint there is a cruel joker indeed. The facts, as confirmed from Moscow, are that ruthless Comrade Josef Stalin is deliberately robbing the Russian market of things that Russians want to buy, in order to sell those things abroad and reap foreign capital. Thus correspondents humorously described a recent paper famine" in Moscow, although the Soviet Monopoly was even then shipping paper to Persia in thumping shipload lots. The deal was put through by His Highness Timoor Tash, favorite Courtier of the Shah...
Many magnificent and historic individual gems still survive. Black, Starr & Frost has an emerald presumably from the Russian Crown collection. Tiffany recently acquired a ruby considered the finest it ever owned. Last week, Queen Mary of England attended the opening of Parliament wearing the Cullinan diamond, largest in the world, estimated to be worth...
...Russian by birth, staunchly American in spirit, and one of the best directors of opera to be found. Vladimir Rosing, director and originator of the Company, maintains, that the United States has an operatic message to give the world, as noble as that of Germany or Russia; but as in the case of other countries, it will never be given until American has opera, rendered in her own language. These classics in English are not written down to an uncultured public but upon an intellectual plane. Last year, during the first professional season of the Company. Mr. Rosing proved...