Word: novosibirsk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From Novosibirsk last week came the usual bloody item of Soviet grain news, an item so commonplace as to excite no Russian remark. Because the collective farm "Red Front" raised only 40% of its State-scheduled grain quota, the Western Siberian Circuit Court sentenced four of the collective's officials to be shot...
...again until reaching Alaska. Winnie Mae thundered out of Moscow a half-day ahead of schedule. But an oil leak was causing the robot to misbehave and Pilot Post had practically all the burden of solo flying. Twice he got lost in dirty weather over Siberian wilderness, but found Novosibirsk by sheer skill and luck. He had stretched his lead to 17 hr. upon bounding...
...Omsk when a fuel line in his Lockheed plane broke. Dizzy and nauseated from breathing gas fumes. Pilot Mattern set his ship down at the coal mining settlement of Belovo, so groggily that it cracked the stabilizer. He lost a day and a half there before mechanics, flown from Novosibirsk, completed repairs. For the treacherous 2,600-mi. hop from Khabarovsk across the Sea of Okhotsk, the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Bering Sea to Nome. Pilot Mattern steeled himself with plenty of rest...
...time across the Urals to Omsk was comparatively slow and he lost a considerable part of his lead. Then, apparently deciding to content himself with an unprecedented solo performance regardless of beating Post & Gatty, he rested in Omsk (where the others had not even landed) before heading for Novosibirsk, Irkutsk to Khabarovsk, jumping-off point to Alaska and home...