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There was a terrible famine in 1891, when the rye and wheat crops failed. In a dozen provinces around Samara 30,000,000 peasants shrank on the bone and swelled in the belly. The great U.S. heart was touched. Money was raised, four ships of provisions and clothing sailed for St. Petersburg. But the Volga was far from the Mississippi and the aid came too late: thousands perished...
...long-sought victory over the Red army garrison at the big Black Sea port shrank to relative insignificance in the glare of the battle for Moscow. After capturing the bastions of Kalnga and Kalinin, the Nazis said, German forces were probing deep into the distressed capital's outer defenses...
standard, 34 by 1933. "Buy British" became the Empire slogan. The New York Stock Exchange's new long-term foreign issues shrank from 1928's billion dollars to 1932,s nothing. England went off gold. In the U.S. men sold apples on street corners; the Bonus Army marched on Washington. Into power in Germany came a nervous, harsh-voiced, twisted genius named Adolf Hitler. Economic nationalism, forced into full flower by the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, became the physical basis for the ideology of Fascism. The lines were written, the stage was set for World...
Ickes' warnings of "gasless Sundays" recalled World War I days, when Sunday driving became treasonous, children stoned cars, and pedestrians yelled "slacker" at any driver who ventured out. Since then the Sunday ride has become a major U.S. recreation. Washington, in 1941, shrank from spoiling it, preferred a straight rationing system which would fix the amount of gasoline a consumer could buy each week, permit him to use it whenever he pleased...
...strange week for Southerners. Outside the South it was cold enough, but not unseasonably so, as snow covered most of the Eastern States. It was so cold in Lincoln, Neb. that, according to one scientist there, the University of Nebraska's Memorial Stadium shrank four inches, reducing its seating capacity by 29. Little grumbling went with bad weather there; Nebraska's drought had been so bad that a heavy snowstorm brought Statewide rejoicing. Miles City, Mont, was reported the coldest place in the U. S. last week, with 27° below...