Word: saratov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from 50,000 to 1,000,000 rubles for Red Army weapons.*The one Comrade Stalin liked the best and the one Pravda featured came from gnarled, patriarchal Ferapont Golovaty, father of four, grandfather of ten, keeper of the bees and assistant chief of a collective farm in the Saratov region...
Last year Grandfather Golovaty gave 100,000 rubles for a fighter plane, which his Saratov neighbor, Guards Major Yeremin, had flown at Stalingrad, Rostov, Taganrog, Melitopol and in the Crimea. Now, wrote the beekeeper, the plane was "quite worn down." Meanwhile, Grandfather Golovaty's bees had produced much honey, earned a good bounty, helped stock up Moscow's long-depleted food stores (see cut). They could afford to give another 100,000 rubles for a new plane. And might Grandfather Golovaty, personally, present the gift to Major Yeremin...
...Last week Archbishop Grigori of Saratov and Stalingrad announced that a long-standing rumor is about to come true: Moscow's Orthodox Theological Institute will open "shortly." It will be Russia's first theological seminary since 1917. Students must be over 18, will get a fiveyear, tuition-free course. Required course: the Constitution of the U.S.S.R...
...Russian Gasoline." In Washington last week State Department officials, eager to find out the situation in the Soviet oil fields, conferred with three U. S. petroleum engineers who up to a few weeks ago were working in the Soviet Union at Ufa, Saratov and Grozni in the Caucasus...