Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Japanese agents have also spotted the fingers of a fast-lengthening Russian rail and highway system, linking these troop dispositions and reaching toward the North Pacific shore. Partly completed: a northern trunk of the Trans-Siberian railway, from Lake Baikal eastward to the lower Amur River region. Under construction: a highway from the mid-Siberian maneuvering and training center of Yakutsk eastward toward Anadyr, near the tip of Siberia, facing Alaska; a railroad from Nikolaevsk to Kamchatka, circling the Sea of Okhotsk and making Japan's northern water flank in effect a Russian lake...
Salmon & Secrets. In 1946 a Communist friend turned him over to a Tass correspondent named Anisimov, who plied him with champagne at his home, treated him to cozy téte-à-téte dinners of jellied Volga fish, Siberian smoked salmon, choice vodka, potent Swedish export beer and voluble persuasion. After three years of this, Ernest was considered ready for espionage...
...first U.S. critical rave. He was one of 25 unhappy European singers who were stranded in Chicago four seasons ago when their impresario went broke (TIME, Feb. 10, 1947). The Chicago Tribune's captious Claudia Cassidy got him to sing a few bars of Lamentation of a Siberian Prisoner to her over the telephone. She compared him to Chaliapin and Pinza...
...always had. His attitude is accepted readily by his students, one of whom remarked about the recent map of Russian slave labor camps: "There's nothing especially new about that for the Russians, is there? Couldn't the map have stood for the banishment camps and Siberian prisons the Czars kept for the disposal of their political opponents? The Bolshies are doing what Russians in power have been doing for generations...
...fourth time this year, sharply demanded that Russia hand back 672 lend-lease ships and settle up her $800 million wartime account with the U.S. (the Russians are willing to give up only two ships, both stuck fast in Siberian...