Word: withe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sensing that the New Soviet Man might be getting a bit impatient with the shabby, shoddy clothes so long accepted as the badge of well-dressed Soviet citizenship, Izvestia sent two reporters to a clothing industry convention at Riga (which considers itself "the Paris of the Baltic"). Helped perhaps by...
A clothing-factory manager joined in. "We never know what fabrics we are going to receive tomorrow or the day after. This fall they sent us some light stuff suitable for topcoats. But the factory was already making winter overcoats with fur collars. Nichevo! We have to attach black fur...
¶ The Soviets now have about 100 major operational missile bases in a crescent extending from the White Sea down to the Baltic Coast to former Koenigsberg, and on into the Southern Ukraine and the Carpathians, with some forward launching sites in the Thuringian forest of East Germany.
¶ On the launching pads are T-3 ICBMs, with a range of more than 5,000 miles, and the T-2 and T-4 IRBMs, with ranges of 1,600 and 1,000 miles respectively. If Soviet missile doctrine is similar to the West's, each base has...
¶ Supplementing the land-based rockets, many of Russia's 450 submarines are armed with the 95-mile-range Komet ballistic missile, which can be fired from underwater and is already in service, and the surface-fired 310-mile-range Golem, which is now in mass production.