Word: balkhazhstroy
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Some 15,000 workers and their families (totaling 35,000) were shipped by barge and camelback to the job site, have lived there in tents and eaten up most of the money. Lack of rationalization (coordination) permitted the Balkhazhstroy project to be launched on a schedule calling for the arrival of 300,000 tons of construction materials yearly?whereas the most that Lake Balkhazh's two tiny steamers and three barges have been able to carry is 10,000 tons for the year just ended...
Rampant on Lake Balkhazh's brim last week was John C. Calder, the tall, two-fisted, blue-swearing U. S. engineer who drove, argued and pleaded Stalingrad's famed Tractorstroy into successful operation. Last week not even John C. Calder seemed to think that anything can be done with Balkhazhstroy except "conserve...
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