Word: urals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This striking decision was announced at Moscow with dramatic display. The official press declared that on July 1 twelve wood-burners driven by Soviet crews exclusively female started out on a triumphal 7,000-mile test run which included a run through the Ural Mountains and was completed last week "with no accidents and no serious breakdowns." Foreign correspondents turned out to count the trucks as they were driven by their pretty crews through cheering crowds. They counted seven wood-burners which actually crossed the finish line out of the original twelve...
...first Cabinet was hoarse-voiced "Radio General" Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, the Rightist commander at Seville. Immediately after publication of the Cabinet list General Queipo went to the micro phone. "The Government is taking charge of everything, including the purpose of my talks," said he, "therefore it is nat ural that these chats cease...
...most startling characters in the U. S. art world are the Brothers Armand and Victor Hammer, one with a medical degree, both friends of Soviet Russia. Visiting Moscow in 1921 to do a few months' medical relief work in the Ural farming area, Armand Hammer ended up by staying nine years and with Brother Victor became one of the first foreigners to obtain commercial concessions in Russia, sold Ford tractors, Moline plows, later bought Russian beer barrel staves for his U. S. factories. Realizing that the Soviet bureaucracy was becoming swamped in a morass of official papers, they obtained...
...Moscow journalist friends knew "simply disappeared" two months ago. In 1934 at the high point of his international journalistic career Doletsky signed up Tass with the Associated Press and the United Press in an exchange news arrangement, was feted in Manhattan. Last week The Ural Worker, an obscure newspaper published 900 mi. from Moscow at Sverdlovsk, arrived by mail and Tass men devoured its announcement that Director Jacob Doletsky and his immediate assistants are "Trotskyist bandits who penetrated into the main office of Tass and caused incalculable damage to the Soviet Press...
Doletsky and his Tass gang, according to The Ural Worker, tried to undermine the foundations of Soviet achievement by putting on Tass wires invariably rosy accounts of successes of the Five-Year Plans and achievements of leading Bolsheviks. "Instead of unmasking the shortcomings of Sverdlovsk industry and the mismanagement of collective farms," declared The Ural Worker, "Tass published a flowery story about the arrival of spring. . . . Thus Doletsky and his accomplices carried out the dictates of Fascist bosses...