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Russia and Japan are still likely to collide, Professor Hopper believes. "Ever since the Mauchukuo incident in 1931, the Bolsheviks have concentrated their energies on building a defense system in the Far East against the Japanese, involving a railroad parallel to the Trans-Siberian, and industrial self-sufficiency for Russia's Far Eastern territories," he explained...
...Panama Canal, Trans-Siberian Railroad, Boulder Dam, New York's subways, many U. S. railroads, were built with Marion shovels (now no longer steam, but electric & Diesel driven). Monster of the Marion line is a $450,000 strip coal mining shovel, which can scoop up 50 tons of earth, dump it on top of a seven-story building 226 feet away...
...marital Nemesis, gay but tenacious Show-girl Miriam Aarons (Paulette Goddard). The drama of The Women is the effort of a good woman to adjust herself to a social pattern in which she is as much at a disadvantage as a Pekingese out foraging with a pack of Siberian wolves. Mary does succeed in keeping her happiness, but not until she too has done a little clawing...
...autobiographical first novel of a Russian ex-revolutionist and army officer who escaped to the U. S. in 1924, They That Take the Sword is a simply-told, convincing, first-person marathon (717 pages). It traces the career of an idealistic, dynamic, personable young Siberian peasant who ran away at 16 to become a "Russian Lincoln." He became leader of a terrorist group, was exiled to Siberia, rose to a captaincy during the War, commanded both Red and White troops in the civil war, narrowly escaped "liquidation" when he grew disgusted with both sides...
...weary years that he had finally proved the Mongolian ancestry of American Indians, happy Dr. Hrdlicka started for home last week. Exactly how the original Indians reached the shores of Alaska he did not know. But he was willing to bet that, after making the arduous journey to the Siberian coast, they traveled to what are now the Japanese-owned Kuril Islands, thence to the Aleutian bridge and North America...