Word: baku
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hits the Moscow newsstands in midmorning, along with the other two of the Big Three, the Government's official Izvestia and the Army's Red Star. Other Pravda editions are printed (from mats delivered by plane) the same day in Leningrad and Kuibyshev, the following day in Baku and Rostov...
...Russians say that "Kars is a British dagger pointed at Russia's heart-Baku." Kars dominates the valleys leading to Batum, Russia's rail and pipeline terminal on the Black Sea, and the Transcaucasian roads to Russia's biggest oilfields. But Kars can also be a Russian dagger pointed through Turkey at the British Empire's oil arteries. It flanks the Iranian province of Azerbaijan about which Russia is much concerned...
...City of Stalingrad, General Charles de Gaulle climbed into his transport plane and zoomed off for Moscow. In Cairo, he dropped down for a chat with Egypt's King Farouk. In Teheran, he dropped down for a chat with Iran's Shah Reza Pahlevi. But at Baku, Russia's big oil city on the Caspian Sea, General de Gaulle ran into General Winter...
Died. Boake Carter, 46, baleful-voiced, tendentious radioracle; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. Born in Baku, Russia (his parents were a British consular couple). Carter got his radio start in 1930 by covering a local rugby match (no other Philadelphia newsman understood the game). Listeners either loved or loathed his clipped, British-toned accent, his "cheerio" signature, his hyped-up, opinionated presentation of the news...
...From Baku one train daily now runs to Moscow via Rostov and Kharkov, cutting the south-north trip by two to three days. At the Baku station, Lauterbach asked why the first-class waiting room was filled with officers only. Replied the stationmaster: "It would cost too much to build a room like this for everyone now. It's a matter of time. After the war we'll build a big, beautiful one for all. Now it's obviously impossible, so privileges must go to a few with the people's consent...