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Soon Kahn's engineers were given full charge of the entire heavy industrial building program of the first Five-Year Plan. In two years they had built 521 factories from Kiev to Yakutsk, and trained some 4,000 Soviet engineers and apprentices to carry on their work...
Courier Wagner's longest tour of duty was 9½ months on Copper Tycoon Daniel Cowan Jackling's yacht. His most capricious clients are Englishmen. One hired him for a trip to the world's coldest spot. He picked Yakutsk, Siberia. From a U. S. millionaire with a Napoleonic complex came his goofiest assignment: a tour of every Napoleonic landmark in Europe. They started in Corsica, wound up six months later on Elba...
...From Yakutsk, Siberia, his CQ (calling all stations) carried 4,837 miles to Hermosa Beach, Calif. During earlier tests from Wichita, Kans., it was heard in Honolulu, 4,226 miles away. Altering the length of the harmonically operated antenna gave his radio beam virtually any direction he chose. When the antenna trailed its rubber wind sock at full length, the signal was concentrated straight on the spot to which the plane's nose pointed, straight back in the opposite direction. This gave maximum performance down the two most desirable paths, forward to the next destination, back to the last...
Despatches from Yakutsk, Siberia, asserted that a Soviet Commission of Investigation has reported "the presence of about 400 tons of available gold in the 6,000 square miles of territory in the Aldan River District." Koreans, Japanese and Chinese, who have been flocking to this remote and inaccessible part of Siberia, were ordered to depart within one month by the local Soviet. Henceforth only Russians will be allowed to "work" the region, and it is alleged that they will be forced to exchange all gold mined for Soviet currency at a rate of 2½ chervonetz* ($14) an ounce. (Refined gold...
Secretary Hunt has telegraphed the two officers of the Jeannette, who are now at Yakutsk, to remain on the ground until they hear further news of the crew...