Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty crimson-dyed wooden kegs of Siberian gold bars (U. S. casks for gold export are white) stood idle four days of last week in the vaults of the Chase National Bank and the Equitable Trust Co., Manhattan, eating up $700 a day interest at the expense of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, which had exported gold to the U. S. for the first time. Standing orders have outlawed Russian gold since 1920. [Only last month Secretary Frank B. Kellogg had ruled against cashing of Russian Soviet railroad bond coupons by the Chase National (TIME...
...Majesty's Government concluded, last week, with the Russian Soviet Government, a most satisfactory treaty continuing the rights under which Japanese go every year to fish in Siberian waters. Though this vital document emerged through routine channels, its negotiation was rumored to have been greatly furthered, at Moscow, by the "unofficial" visit of that great statesman Viscount Shimpei Goto...
...ought to make good time- say 30 days to Urga-and if I am caught, that will be six months of Siberian exile, that...
...export steamer a fortnight ago. Heading west, they were cheered by U. S. Boy Scouts as supreme symbols of the motto: "Be Prepared." Not only have they earned all expenses of the trip by lecturing and writing articles for Polish newspapers, but they expect to conquer frozen Siberian steppes in their Ford...
Heavy rains and tornadoes swept eastern Siberia last week, raising the River Amurat the rate of an inch per hour. Soon more than 100 villages were flooded; 40,000 peasants were rendered homeless; 100 drowned. The angry waters continued to swirl, threatening Khabarovsk, important Siberian city. The storm showed no sign of abating...