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...studying Chinese 45 years ago, he became fascinated by the discovery that some basic Chinese characters have their origin in the signs of the solar zodiac. In spite of the press of more urgent business-he was an official of the Y.M.C.A. in China, director of prisoner relief in Siberia during World War I, pastor at Cornell University until 1942-Dr. Moran found time to dig deeper into the historical ABCs. eventually evolved a basic theory. The alphabet, says he* could have had its origin only in some great "organizing principle" common to the ancient world as 'far back...
Claverly Hall, once a Mount Auburn St. Siberia, has risen to new popularity this year. A large percentage of the students now living there will remain next fall, a spot poll indicated yesterday...
...season in the Ukraine had ruined the harvest, and vast quantities of grain had rotted on the railroad sidings; in the Volga region, dry winds cut crops. It did not matter to Khrushchev that these failures were aggravated by his own plan to switch wheat production to Siberia, and that the harvest in the Ukraine had been delayed (and a fourth of it lost) because he had ordered much of the machinery for its collection removed to Siberia. All he wanted was something to pin on Malenkov, head of the negligent government ministries...
...winter in the Ukraine and dry winds in the Volga area seriously affected the 1953-54 harvest. A quarter of the grain was lost "through delays in harvesting, which sometimes took 45 days, as a result of the shortage of harvesting machinery" (much of it had been moved to Siberia to take care of Khrushchev's ambitious scheme for developing that dry and virgin area). In the same winter the meat and dairy industry suffered severe setbacks, and the U.S.S.R. lost 2% of its sheep flock...
Praise the U.S. Party Secretary Khrushchev's cure for Soviet economic ills fell into two parts: 1) increasing wheat production in Siberia and the development of U.S.-type animal husbandry in western Russia and the Ukraine, 2) a crackdown on consumer industry and consumer spending in favor of a buildup of heavy industry. He even found himself praising the U.S. to make a point. Khrushchev is impressed by the way "Americans have succeeded in achieving a high level of animal husbandry." The answer for Soviet Russia, he said, is the widespread U.S. planting of hybrid corn for fodder. Khrushchev...