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...premises with an international exhibition on town planning and an exhibition on popular science. Despite border guards, town planners and scientists now & then strayed into the domains of the diplomats. Guillaume Schneiter, a frail sexagenarian who described himself as a professional inventor, was one of the trespassers. Hugging a pile of documents, he appeared in the delegates' improvised bar (already known as Le Bar Marshall) and related...
Dewey supporters knew they would have to pile up enough votes to win the nomination on an early ballot, before any such combustion could take place. To that end they tried to parlay a firm core of Dewey delegates into an illusion of Dewey's inevitability, thus roll up an overwhelming slate of backers well ahead of time. The kind of delegates they wanted were stampede-proof, blitz-proof, down-the-line Dewey...
...population (200) were killed. Every house was ruined. Of 38 horses, three were saved. Lenino's 70 cows were evacuated to the Urals; there are only 15 now. The collective barn was the first building to be restored. Next to the barn was a steaming manure pile and a thickly thatched vegetable cellar with Lenino's treasure-40 tons of seed potatoes. But Lenino would see little of the profits. While I was in Moscow, the Soviet state was buying potatoes at $5.84 a ton and selling them at $220 in ration stores, at $1,240 in "commercial...
...economy was tied almost completely to fish and gold-a salmon industry owned in Seattle and a gold industry owned in the East. Alaska had been administered chiefly from dusty Washington pigeonholes by bureaucrats who had never seen a skate of halibut gear or a dredge's tailing pile...
...Changchun itself-the modern, wheel-shaped city of green trees and creamy buildings which the Japs built as a capital for puppet Manchukuo-the sturdy Manchu citizenry were doing their best to remain calm. During the months of cowboy-&-Indian type warfare around Changchun, civilians could (and many did) pile on to trains heading south toward Peiping. But, with the rails cut, civilians were stuck...