Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several months ago Soviet papers factually reported such a misfortune as Arctic scientists constantly risk in their perilous lives: unpredictably heavy ice at the beginning of the winter of 1937 had trapped an unusually large number of icebreakers in Siberian waters. This has been known for months, but suddenly last week Vice Premier Kosior rushed before the Council of People's Commissars, declared that the early ice was a factor which Professor Schmidt and his scientific colleagues are learned enough to have figured out in advance. The professor was called before the commissars, but what he said was kept...
...Russia's principal railway from every point of view, especially the strategic, is the Trans-Siberian. Last week Dictator Joseph Stalin and Premier Vyacheslav Molotov were announced recently to have issued a joint order demanding that officials of the Trans-Siberian "restore it to efficient operation." Stalin & Molotov mentioned that "76 railway cars loaded with metal have been standing on sidings at Khabarovsk for six months." Their order added: "Eliminate traffic jams and defective locomotives...
...five companions, missing since their last faint wireless message flashed out August 13 as they were descending with one dead motor somewhere near the 48th meridian. No charge did Flyer Mattern make for his personal services because the same commander and the same crew rescued him from the Siberian Arctic four years...
...Litvinoff, on discovering that the Japanese either had not withdrawn or anyhow were on the disputed islands again within 48 hours, was in no mood to continue meek and conciliatory when news arrived of a bloody Japanese-Soviet clash in the Vinokurka Hills. This affray was on the Soviet-Siberian frontier nearly 1,000 miles east of the disputed Amur River islands. Comrade Litvinoff promptly handed a sharp warning to Ambassador Shigemitsu: "Soviet frontier troops have firm orders in no case to allow Japanese and Manchurian troops to cross Soviet frontiers, and upon their appearance on Soviet territory to drive...
...back, was born in Kennebunk, Me. in 1885, still spends his summers at Kennebunk Beach near his great & good friend Booth Tarkington, After graduating from Cornell (1908) he journalized on the Boston Post, Puck, Life. During the War he served as a captain in the Intelligence Section of the Siberian Expeditionary Force. For nine years after the Armistice he was roving correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post, in which his stories are now usually serialized. With his wife and fox terrier, Roberts winters in a telephoneless Italian villa, works a heavy schedule the year round...