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...USSR: THE STORY OF SOVIET RUSSIA-Walter Duranty-Lippincott...
Corliss Lamont '24, is speaking tonight on "The USSR and the World Crisis" under the auspices of the John Reed Society in the Kirkland Junior Room at 8 o'clock...
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...
...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...
...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...