Word: baku
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greatest: Russia's Baku...
...Author- Called Sweden's foremost explorer, "the modern Marco Polo," Dr. Sven Anders Hedin got his start 49 years ago as tutor with a family in Baku on the Caspian, has been prowling Central Asia almost continuously ever since. Expert hydrographer and cartographer, he carries only the simplest instruments on his expeditions, depends largely on the measured stride of his riding camel for computing distances. For Chicago's Century of Progress he directed the reproduction of Jehol's "Golden Pavilion." Short, bland, unmarried and 69, Explorer Hedin is now completing a railroad survey for China...
...might conduct a Boris Godounov in Moscow one night, hurry off to rehearse in Leningrad the next morning. Next year he will be even busier. Besides working with the excellent orchestras and operas of Russia's two chief cities, he must improve the mediocre ones at Tiflis, Baku, Kiev, Kharkov, Svendlovsk, Stalingrad and possibly others. For his work Conductor Coates will have a share (how much he will not say) in the U. S. S. R.'s Cultural & Educational Appropriation, which was two billion dollars...
...Gleaming new electric interurban cars at Baku (in Asia) entering an enormous new railway station in Eurasian style (see map sketch). . . . Prosperity in the place where Red oil comes from. . . . Stalin's mother at Tiflis (TIME, Dec. 8). . . . Chiaturi, which produces the manganese used in one U. S. auto out of every...
...Stalin derives from stal (steel). And last week a group of engineers at Baku, Russia, developers of a new superhard alloy, christened it Stalinite "to symbolize firmness and power...