Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strategy recognized that in the long run defense of the Mediterranean would hinge largely on success of the European Recovery Program. However, while Congress debated ERP, Russian satellites might make military moves which would require military answers. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz said: "In the Mediterranean we would like to keep our ships as near war standards as possible...
...last week, the New York Times filled nearly two columns with a letter from Moscow. Signed by one Dmitry Shisheyev, chief engineer in a machine-tool plant, it replied, in good Union Square dialectic, to a Times survey comparing the hours spent by typical Russian and American workers in earning everything from a loaf of bread to a suit (TIME, Dec. 29). Shisheyev had "analyzed" the figures quoted in a Voice of America broadcast; in pooh-poohing them, he showed an uncommonly glib familiarity with U.S. university bulletins and labor statistics...
Raising an almost imperceptible eyebrow (by mentioning that the letter came by prepaid cable), the Times ran Tovarish Shisheyev's dispatch in its news columns. It remained for a Times reader to supply the grain of salt. Wrote Russian-born J. Anthony Marcus, a veteran foreign-trade specialist: "It would not surprise me to learn that the 'chief engineer' had no more to do with the writing and dispatching of the cable than you or I. ... With about 1,600 words in the cable, even at the lowest rate, the cost would have been about $100, close...
...Even if the money consideration were of no consequence, no Russian, regardless of station in life, and least of all an engineer, would risk even entertaining the thought of communicating with a foreign, capitalist newspaper. . . . Third, of the countless numbers of Russian engineers I have met, both here and in the Soviet Union, not one of them could have possibly written in such good English, or ... displayed such broad knowledge of economic problems here...
...Call You Sweetheart. Author St. John traveled through Titoland with a "change of clothes ... a Boy Scout knife, six cans of DDT, a pencil sharpener, and a considerable quantity of paper." He also took along an interpreter-a Russian-born American girl whose "small, vibrant figure" quivered with eagerness "to answer . . . the riddles of the New Yugoslavia...