Word: baku
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knighthood by transporting that oil, not in tankers, but as ballast instead of water in ordinary ships -thereby fooling the German submarines and keeping the guarantee to the Admiralty. His part in the post-War oil scramble was less heroic. When the U. S. S. R. nationalized the Baku oil fields he began to fulminate against the Bolsheviki and later, they charged, to plot. He backed Hitler in Germany, added a German residence to his English, Dutch and Swiss homes...
Author Roberts gives Deterding plenty of credit for winning the Allies' war. Sir Henri's part in the post-War oil scramble was less heroic. The U. S. S. R. nationalized the Baku oilfields and Sir Henri never got over it. He began to fulminate against the Bolsheviks in the press and. Author Roberts implies, to plot against them in secret. But the Bolsheviks were too smart for him. Author Roberts thinks his backing of Hitler and his admiration for Mussolini are based on his hatred of Communism, which was born of frustration when he lost...
...peaks, resembling successive flashes of sheet lightning. This phenomenon is called the "Catatumbo Lights," after the Catatumbo River, which rises in Colombia and empties into Venezuela's saltish Lake Maracaibo (see map p. 68). Early explorers thought the Catatumbo Lights might be similar to the "Perpetual Fires" at Baku, where burning natural gas seepage illuminated the discovery of that fabulous Russian oil field. Their guess was a scientific error. But the Catatumbo Lights did illuminate the discovery of another major source of the world...
Amid the forest of oil derricks which surrounds Baku, the captain and crew of the S. S. Soviet were tried by the maritime division of the Soviet Supreme Court last week for failing to tow into port a disabled tanker containing over $7,000 worth of the Soviet State...
...murder of Joseph Stalin's famed "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10 et seq.). To replace Friend Kirov in the Politbureau of the Party ("Soviet Big Ten"), Dictator Stalin put forward his hard-boiled nephew. Comrade Anastasy Mikoyan. In 1919 British troops occupying the city of Baku, Russia's oil metropolis, seized 26 self-styled "Bolshevik Commissars," shot all except smart Stalin's smart nephew who managed to escape. Last week the Soviet Congress acclaimed him as definitely a new Big Shot. His extra-Politbureau job: Food Commissar...