Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME. For in spite of transportation difficulties, censorship, bans, dollar shortages, import restrictions, iron curtains, and such, TLI managed last week to get 260,000 copies of TIME'S four International editions to a million readers in 180 countries and possessions overseas. Eighty-one copies even got into Soviet Russia-to "safe" official addresses-and TLI is sure that Russia, too, is "just the sort of place where TIME would do the most good...
...danger in the philosophy is that it sometimes leads its practitioners along roads without guideposts, and they sometimes get their bearings when brutal experience shows them where they have been wrong. Thus Acheson discovered Soviet Russia's real nature. The least the U.S. can hope for is that in dealing with Russia he has his bearings now; it can be convincingly demonstrated that...
...Bulgaria's parliament last week, Foreign Minister Vassil Kolarov introduced a bill to close down religious organizations with "foreign ties." The bill described the Soviet-controlled Orthodox Church as "the People's Democratic Church...
While teaching English to Leon Trotsky, she fell madly in love with him. He was bored. Later, at 46, she married a colorless Soviet official. In 1930 she founded the first English-language newspaper in the Soviet Union, the Moscow News. But she could not get along with her Russian associates. One of the squabbles she got into was taken to Stalin himself for judgment. Said she: "His eyes were kind yet grave, giving rest and assurance...
Budd spent $240 million improving the service. In 1930, as a sort of busman's holiday, he took on a job for the Soviet Union. He inspected its 4,800 miles of badly managed railways and recommended ways of improving them. In 1932, Budd stepped into the Burlington (jointly owned by Hill's Great Northern and the Northern Pacific) which had been hit hard by the depression...