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Word: ussr (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proud and sweating at the machine's controls was Mack Rust, who handled most of the technical problems in developing the picker. Brother John, who first conceived the principle, had gone to Russia. The USSR had bought two of the ten machines which the brothers have so far manufactured, and John Rust went along with the shipment to show Communist agriculturists how to run them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Picker Problems | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...Carveth Wells or the portly Alexander Woollcott spent there--yet they each got a book out of it." Perhaps, Mr. Franck himself best sums up the value of this book's contribution to knowledge about the Soviet when he adds "You couldn't get the whole truth about the USSR in a single book if you went and lived there until Doomsday. Russia is too big a subject for any one writer." Indeed, this homely philosophy of Mr. Franck's seems right. Franck honestly professes to "know" little about Russia and refrains from uttering any obiter dictums. Thus he attains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 3/13/1935 | See Source »

...USSR's famed Maxim Gorki (ANT-20), world's largest landplane, contains a complete sound cinema projection booth in addition to a broadcasting studio, rotary printing press (capacity: 10,000 papers per hr.), photo-engraving plant, etc. But Maxim Gorki's projector is used on the ground, to show propaganda films in territory where cinemansions are unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Cinema | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...your recent change in editorial policy in regard to the USSR, I have been prompted to take you to task. Aping Hearst you 1 unleashed a vicious, slanderous attack upon Soviet Union. Among your crimes are truths, distortions, over-zealous imagination just plain out-in-out lying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 14, 1935 | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

...pronouncements by his associates. What the Russians fear is that in case of a war with the Japanese the rest of the capitalist powers are going to gang up on Russia and engage in a good deal of international eye-gouging and groin-kicking at the expense of the USSR; if Germany and other European states launch an attack upon Russia at the same time that Japan does, it is obvious that the results are going to be pretty sad for the proletariat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 2/21/1934 | See Source »

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