Word: baku
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Twenty years ago, in a poor saloon on the outskirts of Baku, near the factory quarters, one could meet a badly dressed young man with crooked nose, low forehead and coal-black hair. He was a Georgian, the publisher of the workmen's paper. He called himself Koba, Nischeradse, Tschischikov, Ivanovitsch, and, lastly, Stalin. His real name was Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili...
...production for the Soviet fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1927, was more than 10,000,000 metric tons; pre-War annual consumption of kerosene in villages was 8 pounds per capita, and last year's consumption was 9.4 pounds per capita; pre-War wages of workers in the Baku fields were 35 rubles per month, while during the year just ended the wages averaged over 75 rubles monthly...
...Present production costs in the Grozny oil fields are lower than before the War, while in the Baku fields these costs are about equal to those of 1913. The output of gasoline from crude oil has been increased from the pre-War figure of 0.4% to over 0.7%. Deterding also mentions the Soviet coal industry. It will be interesting to learn that coal production for the year just ended was 39% higher than the figure given by Deterding...
...Persians, however, may send an unlimited amount of goods at privileged rates of tariff and transport, to the fairs of Nizhniy-Novgorod and Baku, provided that they buy not less than 85% in Russian goods at the fairs. The balance may be recovered by Persia in foreign currencies at official rates...
...naphtha for sale in Mediterranean countries; 3) 500,000 tons of fuel oil for Standard Oil ship filling stations at Constantinople, Port Said and Colombo; 4) six years' rights to get oil for its tanker fleet from Russian Naphtha Syndicate tank stations at Marseilles, Genoa, Constantinople and Baku...