Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...served there on various wartime boards, filled the post of Administrator of Lend-Lease, ably helped to sell Roosevelt's policies to skeptical Congressmen, succeeded Sumner Welles as Under Secretary of State, spread good will, slapped backs and first-named embarrassed British and Russian diplomats. When the aged Cordell Hull had to quit, silver-haired Ed Stettinius, at 44, became the second youngest Secretary of State in the nation's history...
Since Moscow's May Day air show in 1947, the world has known that Russia has some very fast and possibly very good jet-propelled airplanes. Now, Jane's All the World's Aircraft, just off the presses, has told what it knows and surmises about Russian jets. With five drawings ("impressions") and one photograph,, Jane's gives some interesting descriptions, some of them fragmentary, of Red single-jet fighters, twin-jet attack bombers and fighters, four-jet bombers...
...Russian counterproposal also calls for international control and inspection, but it contains a number of sharp little gimmicks: 1) atomic energy research and production facilities for "peaceful purposes" would be owned by individual nations; 2) inspection would be only "periodic," confined to plants, mines, etc. that have been declared officially by the government which controls them; 3) the international body would merely make recommendations to the Security Council on how to deal with offenders, thus subjecting enforcement to the veto...
...streets teem with Russian soldiers. Dairen Chinese are now forbidden to use the old Chinese term mao-tse (literally: hairy one) when referring to Russians; Russians must be called lao-ta (literally: elder brother...
Economically, Dairen is almost completely prostrate. The port itself, once capable of berthing 50 to 60 ships, now handles about one foreign freighter and two Russian ships weekly...