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...rapidly all through the last six months of 1939, in January reached the highest figure for any month since January 1931 (TIME, Feb. 19). Germany has been boasting about Russia not only as an inexhaustible source of materials, but also a conveyor of supplies from elsewhere, over the Trans-Siberian Railroad, even over the Old Silk Road and other caravan trails...
...Inside its mud walls and high gates is found a desert melting pot of Mongols, Turks, Tibetans, Manchus. Moslems who have long thrived on the city's far-flung trade. At Lanchow, Bactrian camels dump full caravan loads that have been hauled 1,500 miles from the Turkestan-Siberian railhead in Kazakistan. By camelback are brought dates from Turkestan, raisins and apricots from Turfan...
Died. Sammy Boy, 16, snow-white Siberian Samoyed brought to the U. S. by Arctic Explorer Roald Amundsen, so much in demand for commercial dog photographs that his name was listed in the Los Angeles telephone book; of a heart attack; in San Francisco (where he was to act in a charity show...
...Good evening, men," Whitsitt may say, "tonight's feature story is headed: 'Thirteen incorrigibles shipped to Siberian stir.' " Siberia, in Michigan stir talk, is Marquette prison. Other items may have a warmer touch. Prisoner So-and-so lost a picture of his wife in the textile factory. Reward for its return: two packs of cigarets. Prisoner Such-and-such will swap a pair of $12 shoes, which don't fit him, for 16 packs of cigarets. Whitsitt used to broadcast complaints and comments on prison regimen, too, but nowadays he has to stick to straight news...
...such volume, believed it would take at least a ship a day leaving Black Sea or Baltic ports to transport the fodder. >From Dairen, Manchukuo, came a report, later broadcast from Berlin, that the Russians had agreed to transport 1,000,000 tons of Manchukuoan soybeans over the Trans-Siberian Railroad to Germany within the next few months. Soybeans are used to produce margarine, and oil cake used as cattle fodder. Again it was questioned whether the Trans-Siberian, part of the way a one-track affair, could handle such traffic in such a short time...