Word: amudaria
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Last week the Council and Mr. Davis announced a bold solution of Russia's cotton problem. Into the vast parched plain known as the Golodnaya Steppes or "Hungry Desert" two mighty rivers will be diverted. One, the Amudaria, is famed as the longest stream in Asiatic Russia (1,500 mi.). Superstitious peasants call it "The Strewer of Life." The other river is the Sirdaria, "The Giver of Gold." Together they will supply 10,000 cubic feet of water per second for one of the vastest irrigation projects of modern times. Once watered, the "Hungry Desert" will present ideal conditions...
...project covers almost every square mile of arid area in Turkestan down to the Afghanistan boundary and northward to the 42nd parallel, which is at the mouth of the Amudaria River, and includes the great plains over which Tamerlane, Alex ander the Great and other warriors marched their conquering but weary hordes...
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