Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Observers friendly to Marshal Feng noticed that he, with the potent inconsistency of greatness, has now turned his broad back upon the Russian Soviet Government which, two years ago, was furnishing him with most of his money, ammunition and supplies. It is an historic paradox that the Nationalist Party, which conquered China with Russian propaganda and Russian gold, is now absolutely estranged from Moscow and on the friendliest terms with U. S. business...
...Furthermore, . . . the total Soviet exports of every sort for 1927-28 are slightly in excess of those for 1926-27. This was made possible by an increase in the exports of practically all exportable commodities other than grain, especially oil, timber and, in particular, of articles which thus far have been of secondary importance in the export trade of the Soviet Union...
Thus strikingly Mr. Bron called attention to a new world trade trend. Supplementary information from Moscow indicated that Soviet oil production has been speeded up this year to reach 12,500,000 tons-with an export total of 3,500,000 or nearly three times the largest export figure ever reached under the Tsars. A new Soviet "cracking plant" on the Black Sea is delivering refined gasoline to tankers at 8? a gallon. The Soviet textile industry is up to an export total of 140,000,000 meters of textile goods for the past twelve-month-as against...
...indeed. The facts, as confirmed from Moscow, are that ruthless Comrade Josef Stalin is deliberately robbing the Russian market of things that Russians want to buy, in order to sell those things abroad and reap foreign capital. Thus correspondents humorously described a recent paper famine" in Moscow, although the Soviet Monopoly was even then shipping paper to Persia in thumping shipload lots. The deal was put through by His Highness Timoor Tash, favorite Courtier of the Shah of Persia, on a recent visit to Moscow. It was thought politic to start a paper chain of commerce between Moscow and Teheran...
...sentences from her book and Mr. Dreiser's, which were practically identical* But, said Mrs. Lewis: "I want to reiterate that Mr. Dreiser's book as a whole and mine as a whole have numerous important differences. We do not arrive at the same conclusions regarding the Soviet experiment. . . . What strikes me as peculiar in the whole affair is that the passages in question deal with precisely those things which I should have thought a novelist would wish to describe in his own words...