Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...popular synonym for a low, ruffianly fellow and "ruble" was a popular synonym for the ultimate in worthless money. But though the U. S. Department of State remains unaware of the existence of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, U. S. industry is now inclined to believe that Russians habitually pay their bills and that a ruble in the hand is as good as 51½¢ in the bank. Thus last week Amtorg, Russian trading corporation at No. 261 Fifth Ave., Manhattan, announced the following contracts entered into by U. S. corporations with Soviet Russia...
Amtorg, Am-Derutra. Full name of Amtorg is American Trading Organization. Ask curly-haired Saul George Bron, Am-torg Board Chairman, if Amtorg is a Russian governmental agent and he will become voluble in explaining that it is a U. S. corporation, organized in 1924, and no Soviet arm. Nevertheless, Amtorg, like Amkino, Am-Derutra, and many another Russian trading corporation, acts with the approval and the co-operation of the Soviet government, or specifically, with the Soviet Supreme Economic Council...
...Village of Sin (Amkino). People have learned to expect in any modern Russian film a cast of well-chosen actors and actresses with difficult names, acting competently and intelligently without makeup on their faces, so that they do not look like actors and actresses but like men and women. People have learned to expect photography so quietly beautiful or so imaginative that the best effects of Hollywood technicians seem artificial or flamboyant by comparison. They have also learned to expect doses of tedious propaganda extolling communism and episodes in which unnecessary impressionism takes the place of ordered storytelling. This picture...
Meanwhile Soviet authorities were preparing to spend a million rubles in the development of the Perm fields. There are no differences of opinion between the Russian government and the Russian petroleum industry. Russian oil is produced by about six Russian companies and one Japanese company with a Russian concession. The 1928 output was twelve million metric tons (26,455,200,000 lb.) Distribution and selling is handled by a government syndicate, headed by G. I. Sokolnikov. Oilman Sokolnikov, as Soviet Commissar for Finance, was famed as the financier who put Russian currency on a gold basis...
...Author is eleven years dead. Born in 1855 in Courland, a Russian province on the Baltic Sea. he went to a Gymnasium...