Word: siberias
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...active troops, 250,000 reserves. When Congressmen, scared by World War II, scream for underground bombing shelters in the interior U. S., for permanent anti-aircraft installations at Kansas City and points west, the General Staff in Washington shudders. Remembering that the U. S. Army has fought in China, Siberia, Central America, France, the General Staff has planned an outfit ready to be packed up and sent anywhere. The last place the Army expects to fight is on the U. S. mainland...
...Siberia in 1918 wiry little Paul Reynaud was a tough French liaison officer with the White Russian Army of Kolchak, got to know Bolsheviks first hand. His dynamism kindled Mme Reynaud, homey daughter of a president of the Paris Bar Association, to step out and become an aviatrix. As for his own exercise, the new Premier is the kind of man who makes everything strenuous, even bicycling-his favorite sport. He once participated in a long-distance road race...
...island was scarcely inhabited. In 1875, Japan agreed to let Russia have the whole storm-beaten spit. Russia made a grim prison of it, and every year exiled to it some 7,000 prisoners-who then had a 4,000-mile walk across the ice of Tartary Strait and Siberia to the nearest court of appeals. In the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05, Japan won the half of the island which lies south of latitude 50° north. Ever since, Japan and Russia have squabbled (but never actually fought) over its oil, coal and fish. Each now wants...
...October (the Nevsky Prospect of Tolstoy's heroes' time) sparrows are thick in the trees. On this street is one of the world's largest libraries (5,000,000 volumes), one of 511 in Leningrad. It passes October Station, from which Bolsheviks used to leave for Siberia, and ends near the cemetery where lie the bones of Moussorgsky, Dostoevsky, Tschaikowsky and many another famed Russian artist...
...Congress for an appropriation of some $5,000,000 to build a 14-mile cutoff to the sea some 66 miles above Seward (see map) to make the Fairbanks-to-the-States run faster and cheaper. Because the U. S. is jittery about its Alaskan defenses (Russian Siberia is only 50 miles from the westernmost point of Alaska), and because the Army's two newly authorized air bases are on the A. R. R., Ohlson had hope of getting...