Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lenin died Jan. 21, 1924 and three quarters of a million Russians braved 30° below zero to march past his corpse. The struggle between Trotsky and Stalin for supremacy began. It raged for four years, during which time numerous features of the NEP were modified and Soviet life became less Capitalistic, more Socialistic. In line with this trend Trotsky & Friends demanded the wiping out of the kulak or rich peasant. Stalin called their doctrines a "Left Heresy." He secured their expulsion from the Communistic Party in December 1927-then, as the new year opened Stalin proceeded to adopt Trotsky...
...trader, member of the Chicago Board of Trade since 1881; in Chicago. He was famed as a weather guesser, basing his guesses on the direction of the prevailing winds on the Catholic prayer & fast days before each solstice & equinox (ember-days). He bet the temperature would not go to zero between Dec. 20, 1930 and March 1, 1931, collected $1,250 from fellow Board members...
Fireguards, mountain rangers and volunteers rescued nearly 250 of the others in the next five days. Clambering through 20-ft. drifts to an altitude of 8,500 ft., where the temperature was 10° above zero, they found the hunters bitten by frost and half starved, huddled in small groups around fires. Six days after the storm had broken only three of the trapped hunters were still missing. Separated from their parties when the blizzard broke, they had almost certainly been frozen to death...
...nothing new in this. It is the old story of a Germany hopelessly tangled in a mass of debts and on the verge of bankruptcy. Everyone knows that Germany is unable to pay in full. As a matter of fact by the Lausanne agreement which cut reparations almost to zero the statesmen of the Western World, if not its parliaments, admitted Germany could pay no more...
...they could get. Though they did not reach the Pole, they went 320 kilometers farther north than anyone else had been. Then they had to camp out for the rest of the winter. They got used to cold: when it rose to 18° below Zero Nansen sweated so much in his sleeping-bag he could hardly sleep. On the return trip the dogs died or had to be killed. Once their kayaks, with all their possessions aboard, drifted away from them. Nansen swam after them, just managed to get there...