Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...filling rivers at an altitude of 9,000 ft.," Peking recently crowed. "They are battling ice floes and swift currents in sub-zero weather." The Lanchow-Sinkiang will give Russia its fastest connection to the Pacific. (The Moscow-Peking journey now takes nine days via the aging Trans-Siberian Railroad and Red China's existing networks.) The new line will also give Red China its best route to the Soviet Union's industrial area...
SERGEI A. GOCLIDZE, MVD boss of the Siberian regions...
...Sixth of the Earth. The Russian land is vast: 8,500,000 square miles. If the city of Los Angeles were tossed into the Pripet Marshes (it would fit quite easily), the Mississippi River would trace the line of the Urals, Boston would be lost somewhere in the Siberian plains, and there would still be plenty of room to fit the North Atlantic Ocean, as far as the Azores, into the emptiness of Soviet Asia. Within this huge expanse (one-sixth of the world's inhabited land surface), there is vast diversity, and some of the natural wonders...
...below freezing at Panmunjom. The anti-Communist P.W.s buttoned their tents against the chill Siberian winds, and huddled around their potbellied stoves. There were no demonstrations against the Communist explainers; the P.W.s felt too confident to bother. The Communists dared only once last week to screen a North Korean compound, and they took another humiliating defeat: explanations 227: conversions 6. One P.W. argued two hours with his explainer about the Soviet loan to North Korea, then remarked: "You just don't seem to have any grasp of economics." Another P.W. asked the Indian chairman, in perfect English: "Doesn...
...Driberg is entitled to his views, but I wonder if he really believes that death at the hands of the Nazis is different from death, or slow torture, in some Siberian labor camp. I wonder if (and when) Russia and Red China begin to give real competition to Britain in the tooling, steel and textile market, will Mr. Driberg all of a sudden discover that Communism is also "anti-Christian...