Word: baku
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What made this victory particularly enjoyable to the Russians and their allies was the pomposity with which the Germans had announced the capture of Rostov a fortnight ago. "Door to the Caucasus," they had gravely said, as if already lubricating their tanks with the oil of Baku. Their admission of withdrawal was equally grandiloquent: "Occupation troops of Rostov, in compliance with orders, are evacuating the central part of the city in order to make the most thorough preparations for necessary measures against the population which, contrary to international law, participated in fighting at the rear of German troops...
...when the Germans do turn south, they may have an easier time getting at the oil than is generally supposed. The mountain barrier of the Caucasus is no barrier to oil. The important oil fields are north (Maikop and Grozny) and east (Baku) of the mountains, can be reached over good terrain by good communications lines. How soon Adolf Hitler reaches oil fields, and how soon he gets oil out of them, depend on the Russians and the British, who well know the importance of Middle Eastern oil to Germany's existence...
...rump is sufficiently stocked in all vital resources. The Kuznetsk Basin has five times as great coal reserves as the Donets Basin, now in German hands. Oil fields in the plains adjoining the Urals have been developed to the point where they could partially compensate for the loss of Baku. The area should not lack water power: on the Angara River the biggest power dam in the world is being built. Even without the good black earth of the Ukraine, Russia could be agriculturally self-sufficient...
LONDON--The British Ministry of Information announced tonight that a plane carrying Maxim Litvinov, Russian Ambassador to the United States, and Laurence Steinhardt, U. S. Ambassador to Russia, landed yesterday at the Caucasion port of Baku on the Caspian...
Private dispatches from Cairo said the plane already had landed at Pahlevi, 210 miles south of Baku, across the Casplan...