Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason for the postponement was said to be that the Russians could not come to a decision concerning the method of paying their pre-War debt. More important still is the fact that the Soviet Government cannot now obtain on their own terms the big loan that it hoped to raise in London. The British Government let it be known that there could be no thought of a Government guarantee for any loan made to Russia. This means that the Bolsheviki in London will have to negotiate direct with British bankers who, according to recent statements, will not lend Russia...
...understand that the Soviet representatives are still in London...
...Soviet calendar divides the year into twelve months of 30 days each; each month has six weeks of five days each, each week has four working days and one holiday. The extra five or six days at the end of each year form a special holiday week at the end of the year...
Russia has passed out of existence. Such appears to be the case from the notice issued by the Russian postal authorities saying that the official name of the country is the "Union of Socialist Soviet Republics", which is to be abbreviated to "Ussr". They recommend that mall for Russia be so addressed...
...means of transmitting electrical energy in any direction without the use of intermediate transmission wires," in which the British authorities are also said to be interested. Two other Englishmen, Prior and Raffe, have similar devices. Grammachikov, a Russian, has invented a ray that is favorably considered in the Soviet war offices. The German Government is reported to have a ray machine that last year brought down 13 French planes in Bavaria (hushed up but later admitted by the French). John H. Hamill, British engineer, said to represent the German scientist who invented this last-named device, is in America, trying...