Word: volga
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which glow translucently on an electrically-lighted earth globe in the office of a man in Cleveland. The man is not vain, but last week he looked with kindling pride at a point on the globe 270 miles east of Moscow, near Nishni Novgorod and between the Oka and Volga rivers. On that point he has pledged himself to build in the short space of 15 months a wholly new city for 25,000 Russians. The Soviet Government has agreed to pay him for his work $50,000,000-in dollars, in Cleveland. The contract-largest of its kind...
...weeks of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce tour was as much as adventurous Miss Cogswell and loyal Mrs. Ingalls could stand. Having startled fellow passengers and many a Volga boatman by appearing on the hot deck of a river steamer in lounging pajamas, they left the party at Tiflis in the Caucasus, announced their intention of climbing Mount Ararat "to look for traces of Noah...
Soviet reports of drought and dry winds following a late spring sowing have again come out of the Volga grain belt. The peasants are said to be worrying not only for their grain but for their potatoes. During the War and the subsequent Revolution when all else failed there were still potatoes to dull hunger-boiled and eaten with the skins...
Able Newsman Walter Duranty, long-time correspondent in Russia for the New York Times, who early this month traveled down the broad Volga, left the river often to visit the interior of the great grain provinces of Samara, Kazan and Saratov. He noted no undue disturbances or signs of starvation and reported last week: "The harvest, instead of fair to medium, may be distinctly above the average if the weather remains favorable. The advocates of rationing claim that . . . it plays a useful role in the socialization policy which the Kremlin is now pushing so actively...
...Otto,* a few of Genghis,† and a sprinkling of Kublai.** But to U. S. architects and automotivemen, Albert is the most famed member of the Kahn family. Soviet Rus sia, also conscious of Albert Kahn, commissioned him last week to construct vast factories at Stalingrad, at the Volga River's mouth. A tractor plant, an automobile factory and a cotton mill will be the first units in the proposed industrial group...