Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...striped, forest antelope, known as the bongo, sometimes priced as high as $20,000. There is only one of each now in this country both in New York's Bronx Zoo. The Indian rhinoceros* and giant panda were in the same diamond and sable class. Less valuable were Siberian tigers (about $8,000) gorillas ($3,000-$5,000), hippos ($3.000-$4,000) and pygmy elephants. Occasionally, baby elephants have been jobbed off as rare, high-priced pygmies. Cheapest animal of all is the king of beasts. Reason: lions and tigers breed so well in captivity that zoos sell them...
...Soviet Union has intermittently encouraged its own citizens to settle there. Between 1928 and 1933, 19,000 of them did so; the cold winds blew 12,000 of them back. After 1931, when the Japanese across the Amur River in Manchuria were considered a threat to the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the Soviet Government sold land and the necessary farming equipment to Jewish settlers in Birobidjan for a less-than-cost fee of $200. But by 1939 the total population of Birobidjan, including earlier, non-Jewish settlers, had reached only...
...Pearl of the Far East remained embedded in its chilly Siberian oyster...
Home Was Never like This. When Red Army men first streamed westward across Russia's frontiers, they entered a new world full of fascinations and dangers. Siberian trappers, Uzbek farmers, Cossacks from Kuban were so many children discovering toys they had never known in their Communist nursery...
...Threat. On the mainland of Far Eastern Asia, another war had begun as the old one was ending. For 16 years, the Russians had kept an army poised along their Siberian frontier facing Manchuria, had blooded it in border clashes with the Japs' well-trained, ill-famed Kwantung Army...