Word: baku
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...signed. Much of Russia's manganese is mined in Transcaucasia, was formerly shipped to the U.S. through the Mediterranean. Now it would have to be shipped 7,766 miles overland to Vladivostok, thence across the Pacific (where shipping space is more precious than platinum), or around Africa via Baku, Iran and the Persian Gulf. Not an ounce of Russian manganese has arrived in the U.S. since last December...
...European Russia has 85% of Russia's huge oil production-Hitler's most pressing need-and it is chiefly in the great Baku and North Caucasus fields-190,000,000 barrels a year, as against a 1940 German consumption of only 35,000,000 barrels. All but 10% of this possible prize is protected by Caucasian mountain bastions, could be strongly defended. And the fields could be fired, so that it would probably be two years before anything like full production could be restored. Moreover, Russia has needed almost all of her oil ever since she lost...
...three directions lie great deposits of oil, precious as man power to mechanized war: north, on both sides of the Caspian, but principally in and around Baku; west, in Iraq with its colossal double pipeline stretching from Kirkuk clear to the coasts of Syria and Palestine; south, at the head of the Persian Gulf (the richest single oil field in existence, controlled by the British Government for its Royal Navy...
Oilmen, who have drilled from Baku to the Barco, are internationally minded. Most pertinent fact about last week's report was its treatment of the oil shortage as a hemisphere problem, with hemispheric cures. It blandly pointed out, for example, that there are plenty of Italian, German and Danish tankers idle in this hemisphere-"aggregating about 50,000 deadweight tons in Venezuelan ports and 80,000 deadweight tons in Mexico-it should also be noted that there are about 100,000 deadweight tons of French flag tankers at Martinique." These ships (in addition to 50,000 Axis tons...
...longer. And by last fortnight Joseph Stalin must have feared a day would come when Hitler started screaming again for the Ukraine. Meanwhile there may be juicy pickings in the Middle East. Already there were reports that Russia had demanded the northern provinces of Iran, "to protect the Baku oil fields...