Word: u-turn
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...Stalin, as becomes the Biggest Shot, travels between his Kremlin office and suburban home over streets and roads on which 24 hours per day no car is permitted to park or make a U-turn, not even in the country after Moscow has been left behind. The Dictator's motorcade consists always of three cars, generally enclosed 12-cylinder Hispano-Suizas. These cost in France, where they are made, as high as 250,000 francs ($7,700) for each chassis alone, rank among Europe's fastest cars. In Stalin's case, the tonneau windows of the three...