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...Peiping, a course that would take them only 850 mi. from the North Pole. Or they might fly west across northern U. S. or Canada (where water stops are plentiful) to Seattle. British Columbia or Alaska, thence to bear along the Aleutian Islands, the southmost tip of Kamchatka, Siberia and across the stepping stones of the Kurile Islands to Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Lindberghiana | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

Hope, Forgotten, Slavery, Siberia, Ruin, Desolation, Plutoville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Miners' Miseries | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...Last week U. S. S. R. scientists announced a novel plan for cutting down the great packs of wolves in Siberia, making winter travel safer. At intervals throughout the wolf country will be hung microphones connected to a central telephone exchange. The "central" will listen for savage howls, locate the sending station, despatch rangers to despatch the howlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Wolves | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...cold hearts of the polar ice-packs and a few large jungle-guarded areas of the Amazon basin have escaped the eye and tread of civilized man. Only a few other regions have escaped man's mapping and surveying instruments: the vast forests and swamps of northeastern Siberia, the fastnesses of northeastern Tibet, the bandit-infested northern reaches of the Gobi Desert, the sandy centre of Australia, the eastern slopes of the unmapped Andes, the vast Patagonian icecap stretching over South America's narrow end. the snow-swept islands stretching vaguely north from Canada's "barren lands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Abode of Loneliness | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...World War." ("Should we unfortunately become certain that such a state exists," the Pope added, "we should repeat the prayer of the Scriptures, Dissipa gentes quae bella volunt."*) Regenerators. "[Pray] for all who suffer for the profession and defense of the faith as in Mexico, Russia and Siberia, preparing by their sufferings the regeneration of those countries." He wished prayers for Roman Catholic missionaries and special prayers for those missionaries in China, where some have been martyred. Depression. The world-wide economic Depression and Unemployment "make us feel more vividly the need of a better social and international adjustment, inspired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Pope Speaks | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

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