Word: siberia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loading their three boats (weighing four tons) on sledges, and carrying three and a half tons of food, the crew started over the ice, with Siberia 500 miles south of them. In eight days they traveled five and a half miles. But the ice had moved beneath them: they were 25 miles north of where they started. Three months later a few of the survivors, some blind, some mad, one so badly frozen his feet had fallen off, landed on the coast of Siberia where the Lena River pours into the Arctic. Of a party of 14 men, including Commander...
...Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands, to St. Michaels in bleak Norton Sound, through storms on the shallow Bering Sea to St. Lawrence Bay on the coast of Siberia, through the Bering Straits to the black cliffs of Herald Island, the Jeannette pushed her way. There she was frozen in, far south of the Pole, even south of waters regularly visited by whalers. Contrary to common belief, the frozen wastes were not silent and inert. Submerged ice floes smashed steadily against the hull of the Jeannette. The pressure on her timbers made the ship crack with a sound like repeated rifle...
...driven and scolded 166,000,000 Russians to equip the Soviet Union with fairly adequate heavy industry, to collectivize Russian farms, to build an army, to fulfill successive Five Year Plans. The cost of these successes has been measured in the execution of thousands, and the exile to Siberia and the Polar North of hundreds of thousands who resisted his driving and scolding. To Stalin as to his people this week's election is a milestone. Last year when he gave them their Constitution, its terms made clear that the time had come when his driving and scolding could give...
...Commissar Yakovleva, 52, is an Old Bolshevik, a veteran of the bloody fruitless days of 1905, who was exiled to Siberia under the Tsar. After the 1917 revolution she did valiant service in the ruthless Cheka, the pre-Ogpu secret police, gradually rose to be Vice Commissar for Education and finally Russia's first and only female Finance Commissar...
...this proves to be a conference of wrist-slappers, Shanghai dispatches announced this week that at least two of the conference nations, the French Republic and the Soviet Union, are at length helping China to give Japan black eyes by supplying bombing planes flown to Nanking from Soviet Siberia and from French Indo-China. These ships this week were bombing Japanese positions not only at Shanghai but in North China, and every patriotic Chinese itched for the day when they will actually dare to fly over and for the first time in history bomb Japanese towns and cities...