Word: caspian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Friday, June 19 will be like any other day in Cambridge, but not so in Ak-Bulak, Siberia, for to this little hamlet, 200 miles noth of the Caspian sea, scientific expeditions will come from all over the world to observe an eclipse of the sun. Harvard and M.I.T. are combining to send a joint expedition under the direction of Donald H. Menzel, associate professor of Astronomy...
This stiff talk was followed by the unfolding of new Bolshevik building plans on a scale more grandiose than ever before. Commented News Pundit Walter Duranty: "Here they are building-mad. From the Arctic Ocean to the Caspian Sea, from the Baltic to the shores of the Pacific, there is such a fury of building as the world never saw. In the coming year the Soviets will spend 32 billion rubles on a building program which, in the valuation of Russian materials and Russian labor, represents between fifteen and twenty billions of dollars...
...higher than the visiting contestants, soon found a strong easterly breeze. Next day, over the Russian border, a squadron of Soviet airplanes swooped down upon them, fired warning salvos for 40 minutes. Stanchly, the Poles refused to land. Onward, for two days more, they floated unreported toward the Caspian Sea, as all the other balloons jolted one by one to earth. Finally. Polonia came down, 1,000 miles from Warsaw and winner by nearly 100 miles. Thus Poland got permanent possession of the fourth Bennett trophy...
...explosion aboard the tanker set it afire while being towed by the Soviet in the Caspian Sea. Promptly Captain Krivonosov of the Soviet conferred with his political adviser, the Communist Party official assigned to most Soviet merchant ships. This worthy, Comrade Miguschenko, agreed that even with $7,000 worth of Government oil at stake, the danger of a major explosion aboard the tanker which would flood the sea with blazing oil and perhaps destroy the S. S. Soviet was too great to risk. The only thing to do, the Captain decided, was to cut the tow rope...
Aloof as the College of Cardinals is the Caspian where Russia's future is charted in an endless series of successive Five Year Plans by a group of clannish Bolsheviks who form a sort of plan priesthood. Last week they were ready to advise Dictator Joseph Stalin what to do about overcrowded, stinking, sprawling Moscow. As usual their advice was super-drastic...