Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Osoaviakhim is the name of a vast Russian organization the job of which is to build up the Soviet's military reserves by training civilians and youths of pre-military age in such things as parachuting, aviation and chemical defense. "Enemies of the People" have wormed their way even, into this holy of holies. Declared Na Strazhe, Osoaviakhim's official organ, "Every enemy must be revealed...
...rubles (about $260,000) on drilling two wells where there was obviously not a chance of finding oil. Eleven more railway wreckers, said to be working for Japan, were shot at Khabarovsk, Soviet Asia-bringing May's bag of executed spies in the Far East up to 66. Russian-born U. S. citizens were refused visas to visit the Soviet Union seemingly for fear that some of them might be admirers of exiled Leon Trotsky...
Aviators like to argue that various nationalities have distinct flying traits. Favorite assertions: that Japanese are poor pilots, Chinese good; that the methodical Germans are best at bombing, refusing to be drawn out of formation under attack like the hot-headed Italians. Russians are said to be careless about such perfunctory details as keeping gas tanks full, but have a wild Cossack flair for aerial dogfighting. Most curious fact about Russian aviation is that the men who best demonstrate the Russian genius for conquering the air have made their greatest successes...
...normally Red suburb of St. Denis and a potent member of the Paris Municipal Council, was actually converting a number of St. Denis voters to fascism. A key point in the program of Doriot, who favors an alliance with Germany & Italy, is the union of pro-German and anti-Russian elements in France. The Leftists guessed the time had come to do something about M. Doriot when, three weeks aso, it became known that he had obtained control of La Liberte, the Paris daily long held by Conservative Andre Tardieu...
Only four of the more than 50 pavilions were ready-the German, Russian, Belgian, Italian-and there was much caustic criticism because the President had had to make his tour of the Exposition by boat to avoid "holes in the ground and the mess of construction." Jean Frenchman, however, had little cause to grumble at the delay. Because the turnstiles could not be erected in time, everybody was let in free...