Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commissars, for example, told the average Soviet freight train at what average speed it is going to run this year, decreed such things as how many gallons of milk per week the Cabinet plans that the average Russian cow shall give. On Jan. 1, 1937 there was nationwide Communist celebration of the State's announcements that every producing commissariat except that for Timber had "overfulfilled its production quota for 1936"-this quota having been set under the Second Five-Year Plan, which now has only eight more months to run. Statistics released last week with the Cabinet...
Putting his Philadelphia Athletics through their training paces in Mexico City, 74-year-old Manager Cornelius Mc-Gillicuddy ("Connie Mack") was hit in the right shin by a ball, injured so painfully that he was whisked by train to a San Antonio hospital on a stretcher...
...Voyage Out (1915), a conventional, competent piece, was well received in spite of the War. The pages of her second (Night and Day) now seem browned at the edges. In 1921 she cut loose from convention, published a book of sketches (Monday or Tuesday) written in an experimental associative-train-of-thought style which in the next ten years she developed into full flower. With Jacob's Room (1922), she captured the critics, began to win the reading public as well. Of her other books, Mrs. Dalloway is the most popular, but critical consensus has hailed The Waves...
Wearing a pink negligee to advantage, the backstroke artist claimed that all training should be left to the individual. "Personally I train hard for two weeks and then take a break." She bemoaned a hangover during the interview, hastened to add that extra rehearsals after her show, not any connection with the miscellaneous cocktail and whiskey glasses around the room, caused her present discomfort...
Reputedly Ambassador Davies believes the Old Bolshevik trials have been "on the level." Certainly it would be undiplomatic for him to believe otherwise. Correspondents who accompanied him on his recent Russian industrial tour by private train - (TIME, March 15) paid their rail fare at the Embassy before leaving Moscow and only four went. They were surprised and delighted to be handed back their money afterward, assured that they had been the Ambassador's "personal guests." Before leaving Moscow last week, Mr. Davies predicted a rapid rise in U. S. exports to the U. S. S. R., based this...