Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lodge admitted the U.S. mistakes, pointed out they had been publicly corrected. In any case, they were irrelevant. The Soviet fighters had fired first at a U.S. plane flying at least 40 miles from the Siberian coast. Lodge challenged the U.S.S.R. to submit the case to the International Court of Justice...
Human Wall. The great flood began late last spring, when a Siberian cold front collided with a moisture-laden warm-air mass moving inland from the Southeast Pacific. Red China, anxious to maintain its pose of bland invincibility before the world at Geneva, said nothing about its flood so long as it could conceal it. and later tried to minimize...
...Easter egg presented by Czar Nicholas II to his Czarina in 1914. The egg is made of a transparent mesh of platinum, gold and diamonds, contains a jeweled stand bearing portraits of the Czar's five children. Another Fabergé masterpiece was a 3-in. grand piano of Siberian jade. The most valuable item in Queen Mary's collection: a Potsdam bloodstone box mounted with gold and encrusted with diamonds, supposedly a gift of Frederick the Great to the Empress Catherine the Great...
...Soviet Arctic Research Institute reported last week that it had mapped the bottom of the frozen Arctic Ocean. Main feature: a mountain range up to 10,000 ft. high that runs submerged from northern Greenland to the New Siberian Islands (see map). The Soviet scientists named it the Lomonosov Range in honor of Russian Poet-Scientist Mikhail Vassi-lievich Lomonosov...
...Suiyuan-Mongolia Railroad: Red China will run this projected 600-mile line from the Paotow region to Ulan Bator, Outer Mongolia's capital, and the Trans-Siberian beyond. This will be Russia's second new main line to Peking...