Word: siberia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Safe, Gemmie." On June 14 Pilot Jimmie Mattern, flying around the world, took off from Khabarovsk, Southeastern Siberia, for Nome (TIME, June 19). He never arrived. For 23 days no word was heard of him. Last week Mattern's backers in Chicago received an electrifying radiogram from Anadir, trading post on the bleak peninsula which forms the northeasternmost tip of Siberia. It read: "Safe . . . Gemmie." Further despatches indicated that Mattern had made a forced landing 50 mi. from there, damaging his plane Century of Progress; had subsisted for days on game shot with a rifle given him by admiring...
...River basin, from the trackless plains of sprawling Russia and from Moscow. Bigwigs of the Soviet Union, turbanned Kazaks. soldiers of the Red Army, peasants and nomads all came to "Big Bill" Shatov's party. Big Bill had just completed the 1,475-mi. Turksib Railway, linking Siberia and Turkestan. Nothing was too good for him. Soviet orators praised his lurid past as a frequently jailed I. W. W. roustabout all over the U. S. As the senior U. S. Bolshevik in Russia, beaming Big Bill cried, "We old ones have built this road for you- for young, free...
...doing it in a fashion that seems niggardly to the honest pork-barrel politicians. It must be paid back, says lckes, and he is from Missouri about this paying back. Cities and states must show him. A splendid row of proposed post offices, reaching from here to Siberia, is being drastically reduced. Nothing...
...flyer. But "they sounded so sincere, don't you know?" He gave them money to buy the sturdy old Bellanca which Pangborn & Herndon flew around the world. Off to Alaska went the rescue party, headed by Pilots William Alexander & Fred Fetterman. Ther. Mattern turned up in Siberia. A U. S. plane could not fly there without Soviet permission, nor could a Russian plane take Mattern to Nome without U. S. permission. But Mos cow and Washington are not on speaking terms. Thus began a long and devious exchange of messages between the capitals through the office of Brewer Friedman...
...Majesty were "advised" (i. e. ordered by the British Cabinet) to revoke the order in council. In Moscow the engineer-prisoners knew nothing of this dickering. Suddenly their cell door clanged open. "Pack your kits!" barked the Soviet warden. Nervously, not knowing whether they might be going to Siberia or worse, the two Englishmen packed. "Now come this way. March!" Engineers Thornton and MacDonald marched down a series of corridors and out into an open courtyard-just the place for a firing squad. With a paper in his hand the Prison Director approached. "This is a decree of the Central...