Word: baku
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plans for another (fourth) season of fossil collecting in the Gobi desert, costing him his $225,000 camel train. He returned to the U. S. last fortnight. Two Russian expeditions-Colonel Kozlov's in the Khangai Mountains of Mongolia and Professor Mechaninov's nearer home at Baku in Azer-baijan-met with success. Colonel Kozlov found "unquestionable traces" of an ice sheet having covered the Khangais. (This data may prove of importance to Digger Andrews and his paleontologists by helping them to date their finds). Professor Mechaninov's chief discovery consisted of monuments and metallic hardware indicating...
Quoth indulgent Swedes, tabloidizing Mr. Nobel for U. S. consumption: "He came of a family of inventors and princes of finance. His father, Immanuel Nobel, invented the submarine mine. His brothers, Robert Hjalmar Nobel and Ludvig Immanuel Nobel, founded the naphtha industry at Baku, Russia, one of the most phenomenally successful enterprises of the 19th Century. He himself invented dynamite, and reaped fabulous tribute from the whole world for the secret. The entire family labored incessantly at the invention and manufacture of super-combustibles. So numerous were the explosions and fires which wrecked their laboratories that the Swedish Government forbade...
...Baku. Referring to the oil industry in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, Comrade Orakhelashvili asseverated that...
...Russia does not contemplate handing over concessions in the Baku oil field to American or any other concessionaires, as it is able to continue exploitation and reconstruction work there itself. Production already has reached 60% of the pre-War standard and economically concession would not be justified...
...seeking to grab the world, until he finally gets control of the major portion of the world's oil production or else exploits it advantageously for himself in a trust in which his fellow members are Rockefeller, Rothschild, Sinclair, Urquhart, Kemal Pasha and the Soviet Governments of Baku and Batum...