Word: baltic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief casualty of the new labels is that old standby, the rabbit, which for years has traveled under a host of now illegal pseudonyms. Among them: Arctic seal, Baltic leopard, Belgium beaver, bluerette, castorette, chinchillette, erminette, French sable, Galland squirrel, marmotine, minkony, moline, nutriette and twin beaver. Maximum penalty for mislabeling: $5,000 fine and a year in jail...
...batteries) are fast, heavy ships, not as powerful as their U.S. opposites (cruisers of the Brooklyn class) but not taken lightly by U.S. Navy men. Swedish naval intelligence revealed that last month, two of these sleek new Soviet sharks (probably the Chapaev and the Chkalov) slipped out of the Baltic through the Oresund strait between Denmark and Sweden. It was the first time since the late 1930s that heavy Soviet naval vessels had been out in the Atlantic...
Bulletin on Joseph Stalin's health (issued by Dr. Stalin in person): "Brilliant Soviet scientists" have taken him in hand "in an almost dismaying manner" and made him feel a good ten years younger than his 71. That is what he recently told a visiting party of Baltic physicians, as reported last week in an Estonian newspaper. "As you gentlemen can see," Stalin continued, puffing clouds of smoke, "I get older just like other people, but since I changed my diet-two years ago, I feel remarkably well, and I still smoke much, even though the tobacco...
Soon a Polish army craft was on the fugitive's tail. By zigzagging through a cloud bank over the Baltic, the four managed to elude it, despite their slow speed (75 m.p.h.). They navigated by compass, without...
...pressure, the Swedes , arrested Wollweber one day in 1941 and prepared to hand him over. But he casually produced papers showing that he had become a Soviet citizen and got off with a jail sentence for stealing explosives. Even during his imprisonment, Wollweber kept his apparatus working. Many a Baltic ship listed as a mine casualty was actually the victim of a Wollweber time bomb secreted in its hold. Three of Sweden's most modern destroyers went to the bottom...