Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before crude rubber soared* in price recently, a number of speculators sold rubber for delivery July 31. They had no rubber, but they "figured" that by that date they could buy it for delivery from incoming steamers. Meantime the ships-the Kansas, the Siberian Prince and the Menelaus- were crowding on steam to reach New York on the closing July date with their cargo of 6,500 tons of crude rubber. They had come from Singapore via the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean, and during the closing days of July were racing across the Atlantic while the impatient brokers...
Although "many Siberian peasants would give a cow for a Bible," the Bolshevik Government does not permit importation of the Christian book. So asseverated the British and Foreign Bible Society in London...
...other engineers for this particular member. Ralph Budd, President of the Great Northern R. R.. lauded the laying out of that road, the planning and organization of the Panama Canal. Roland S. Morris, onetime (1917-21) U. S. Ambassador to Japan, extolled the administration of the Trans-Siberian Railway during the War. Then French, Chinese and Japanese Ambassadors, Mr. Chief Justice Taft, Elihu Root. Robert Lansing and many another had sent complimentary telegrams, letters...
...book of memoirs published in Russia by Sergius Tschoudnovsky was described the last moments of Admiral Kolchak and his able comrade, General Pepeliayev, the two leaders of the Siberian White Army that tried to smash the might of Bolshevism. Tschoudnovsky, as Chairman of the Investigation Committee, was commissioned, in 1920, their executioner...
...Yusuke Tsurumi, suave, patient young Japanese liberal, explained that the U. S. exclusion policy might well drive his countrymen into the dread Siberian morasses of Communism...