ACROSS RUSSIA BY CAR
TEST FOR FORTY-FIVE WOMEN
MOSCOW, October 6.
Forty-five women have just completed a gruelling two months’ automobile expedition across Soviet Russia, which was designed to test their stamina. They covered 6863 miles in 45 days’ actual driving. The cars were manufactured In Russia, and they averaged 139 mil** a day. The route was through tine seven Republics of the Soviet Union. Every type of weather was expert* enced, and the expedition traversed 'camel trails in Kazakstan, the fool” paths of the salt marshes in little Karakum, and mountain radges M thfi lira to
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21908, 8 October 1936, Page 11
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