Word: khabarovsk
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...Bellanca monoplane Miss Veedol, flew around the world July 28-Oct. 18. 1931. Main delays were caused by a muddy field at Khabarovsk and the suspicious Japanese Government. Rechristened The American Nurse, the ship started for Rome from Floyd Bennett Field, was lost far at sea on a night when the moon was in eclipse...
...only decent port which the Soviet Union has in Eastern Asia, and it is only 490 miles from Harbin. Naturally the mustache of Soviet Commander Vassili Constantinovitch Blucher. Commander-in-chief of the Soviet Far Eastern Army, began to bristle. Five thousand miles from Dictator Stalin, in Khabarovsk, Siberia (which is only 480 miles from Vladivostok) bristling Commander Blucher shouted at his Red Soldiers: "We won't permit any White Guard imperialistic rascals to tread upon our socialistic soil with their dirty feet! If any one is thinking of stretching forth his dirty paws toward our coal, forests or other...
...Sword-handy Commander Blucher spoke on the 14th anniversary of the Red Army. Not only at Khabarovsk but all over Russia, militant spirits ran high. Theatres and opera houses were packed with Red soldiers and Red commanders ("officers" have been abolished) who entered free, loudly cheered by passersby. But the great day was not a holiday for Soviet civilians?Josef Stalin saw to that, and Soviet newsorgans dared print nothing stronger than the Dictator's slogan: "We do not want a single inch of foreign soil but we will not give up a single inch...
...Khabarovsk, Siberia, four railwaymen of the famed Trans-Siberia Railway were arrested for "gross criminal negligence," swiftly tried and sentenced to "the supreme measure of social defense?execution by shooting...
...Bounds. When their attempt to beat the world-girdling record of Post & Gatty failed at Khabarovsk last fortnight (TIME, Aug. 10) wealthy young Hugh Herndon Jr. and hard-bitten Clyde Pangborn decided to slip down to Tokyo and try a nonstop flight to Seattle for $53.000 prize money. They thought to telegraph the U. S. Embassy in Tokyo for permission to fly over and land on Japanese soil, but neglected to wait for a reply before taking off. That was a grave mistake...