Word: siberias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unpaid layoff of 30 days. The problem has become so serious that for the first time it is being openly discussed in the Soviet Union. Kitchen Gardeners. Primed by a high postwar birth rate and changes in the Soviet economy, unemployment has become particularly bothersome in Lithuania, Moldavia, Byelorussia, Siberia and in the Central Asiatic Republics. Partly to blame is that old Western bugaboo, automation. When, for instance, Red planners automated the lime and asphalt plants of Leninsk in Tula province, they put half the region's unskilled laborers out of work. The Soviet Union also has a rising...
...Kremlin seems to agree, despite protests from old-line ideologues and planners. Last week Pravda blasted kopeck-pinching regulations that forbid any restaurant in Russia, from Moscow's vast Ukraina to the smallest cafe in Siberia, to spend more than $5.50 a day on soup greens. Urged Pravda: "Priority must be given to economic methods of management." The government now plans to do just that. Retail stores and restaurants in half a dozen Russian cities will be given a free hand to cut or increase sales staffs, improve displays and boost promotion budgets. "Advertising always pays," intoned Komsomolskaya Pravda...
Whatever it was that rocked Central Siberia back in 1908, echoes of the explosion still reverberate in scientific argument. Farmers 40 miles away from the center of the blast were knocked down by the pressure wave and burned by the flash; trees 30 miles from the center were blown over. But no one is yet sure what actually happened...
Sought Bridge. Perhaps the first irony was that private Russian initiative developed Alaska for the imperialist Czars. In 1741, when Russia sent two ships east from the Kamchatka peninsula in Siberia, it was interested mainly in settling a debate over the existence of a land link between Asia and America...
That first voyage contributed nothing to either side of the argument. But by avoiding the treacherous northern route, which would have taken them to that point where Asia and America nearly touch, the voyagers found the more southerly Aleutian Islands chain. And Siberia's promyshlenniki (freelance explorers) drooled at the thought of the cargo brought back by the crew: fox, seal and otter pelts. Soon these 18th century venture capitalists, some in flimsy river boats that were bound with leather thongs, were spanning the 1,500 sea miles to the Aleutian fingertip and beyond...