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...biggest of all animals-the mammoth-may still be hiding in the forests of Siberia; its remains are still being dug from frozen swamps. In the 17th century invading Cossacks encountered hairy elephants, which they valued as "mountains of meat." As late as 1920 a Russian hunter reported that he came on two "elephants" in the thick of the forest...
Having been allowed to tour remote Siberia for two weeks, the New York Times's Moscow Correspondent Max Frankel, 29, wrote so straightaway a report, drawing sympathetic parallels between the winning of the Soviet East and the American West, that the Communist newspaper Izvestia reprinted his first article complete...
...gilded age when sables were a princess' best friend, the nation's best place to buy sables was Manhattan's C. G. Gunther's Sons. Founded in 1820 by a German immigrant associated with Fur Trader John Jacob Astor, Gunther's not only combed Siberia for the finest sables, but bid in the London market for the finest ermine, sent its agents across Canada on the lookout for mink. Even men coveted the Gunther's label. Gunther's long operated the only men's fur department in Manhattan, offering coats made...
...Considered such uniquely regional proposals as one to provide a DC-4 landing field in the isolated lower Yukon, another to allow Alaskan Eskimos to fraternize with Eskimo friends in Siberia...
...authors of the Tom Swift series ever get around to doing Tom Swift in Siberia, the hero may very well be a fellow like Venka Malishev. Like Tom, Venka is unfailingly brave and resourceful -but he is also a dedicated Communist. In Siberia during the 1920s, young Venka is an agent of the secret police (then known as OGPU). His main job is to hunt down the "bandits," who are fiercely anti-Soviet, have a large part of the population on their side, and live off the country. On skis and on horseback, he scouts the Siberian forests, running down...