Word: russian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German mark is a questionable currency based on some microscopic amount of gold. The Italian lira is practically fiat money. The Russian ruble is a bootleg product. The French franc has had a precarious existence...
South of Labrador the going got tough. Great clouds stacked up along the course with their bases almost on the water. Hardbitten Vladimir Kokkinaki, Brigadier-General of the Russian Air Force, Hero of the Soviet Union, went on instruments. Higher and higher he climbed his red two-motored bomber, of a type used by Russians fighting for Loyalist Spain. Dirty grey mist still dripped dismally off wing and windshield. Nineteen hours out of Moscow, with all the Atlantic behind him, he was tired. But New York City, his destination, was only five hours' flight ahead...
...French-Canadian villager told the tired and shaken Russians where they were by pointing to the spot on their map: Miscou Island, off the coast of New Brunswick, 700 miles short of New York, 3,900 miles from Moscow. Thus, last week after 23 hours and 36 minutes in the air, ended what had come close to being the longest east-west transatlantic flight. At Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., where a crowd of 5,000 waited in a drizzling rain, a Russian Embassy attachè announced the news when it came in by telegraph. Twelve little girls with garlands...
Short and stocky, the well-known history expert leaned back in his chair and after a pause began again; "As for the recent resignation of Litvinoff, Russian Foreign, Commissar, I certainly do not believe that it is preliminary to an alliance with Germany. A Hitler-Stalin alliance would be fantastic and it seems to me more likely that Stalin is just trying to scare Chamberlain into a more active agreement...
...doesn't blame Chamberlain and Daladier for hesitating to join Russia "The Soviet policy has been ambiguous up to now, arguing collective security and deriding democracy at the same time," he stated. He suggested, however, that a Franco-British-Russian alliance would be just the thing to scare Hitler away from further demands...