Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barrels of oil monthly. There would be no direct shipping route to the main Red Army, but there would still be a waterway up the Caspian to the Ural River, another across the Caspian to the Krasnovodsk terminus of the Turk-Sib railway, which loops northward through Central Asia to Samara and the Middle Volga...
This was an old number but the Chief freshened it up. He had hoped barbaric actions against civil populations would decrease, but they were growing. Now, said he, invaders in Europe and Asia "should have this warning that the time will come when they shall have to stand in courts of law in the very countries which they are now oppressing and answer for their acts...
Certainly the onrushing waves of Germans indicated that Bock was still able to be prodigal in his attempt to cut the Volga, to push the Red Army back into Asia, to leave it a weakened mass incapable of engaging the full German military might. If that were accomplished on the southern front, Bock could consider his forces well spent. Then, if an offensive in the north were to close the Arctic ports, Russia would indeed be cut off from her Allies; the Red Army, starved for sufficient supplies, would no longer be an immediate threat to Germanized Europe...
They might risk a final smash at Alaska, at the northwestern U.S., at Australia, India or Soviet Asia. But they could no longer nurse any one or all of these plans with the freedom of aggressors; they now had to allow for Allied attacks everywhere in the Pacific...
...earth's land surface. Almost all of them should contain oil. With only 15% of the world's potential oil-yielding rock, the U.S. has 54% of the world's proved reserves. The only reason for this, says Geologist Pratt, is U.S. know-how. If & when Asia, Africa, South America acquire the same nose for oil, they will far outproduce...