Word: basin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...produced during the entire year 1928, first year of the First Five-Year Plan. ¶"Stakhanovism" was added to the Soviet vocabulary as Dictator Stalin's big-nosed Commissar of Heavy Industry Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze made national heroes of one Comrade Stakhanov, 22, and five other young Donetz Basin coal miners. Accustomed to getting out five tons of coal in each six-hour shift with a Soviet automatic cutting machine, Stakhanov worked out with his proppers and loaders a teamwork system which increased production to 310 tons per six-hour shift...
Overjoyed at this evidence that Soviet workmen are finally getting the knack of how to use Soviet tools, Commissar Ordzhonikidze sent a letter of hearty approval to Donetz' Party Chief Sarkisov. Thereupon Chief Sarkisov promptly ordered: "The Stakhanov system must be adopted throughout the Donetz Basin and executives who attempt to hinder it will be dismissed. Above all there must be no change in the rates of payment. If a miner or group of miners can earn far above the average, let them earn it, because the country needs coal. If miners earn 2,000 or 3,000 rubles...
...from Below. The gas that whishes up, at 230 lb.-per-sq.-in. pressure, from wells in southern California's Salton Sea basin, is carbon dioxide, more than 99% pure and free of malodorous hydrogen sulphide. There is probably enough of this CO 2 under the basin to make a million tons of the popular, efficient refrigerant known as "dry-ice." Geologists believe that the supply is continuously renewed by subterranean chemical action. Owing to the high initial pressure, the manufacturing cost should not be more than $10 per ton as against a prevailing selling price...
...Refusing TVA's request for legalized control over all dam building in the Tennessee basin, a power which under existing law it had exercised merely by the "land shark" practice of buying up little parcels of land where Aluminum Co. of America was trying to purchase reservoir sites...
...right to dictate to Aluminum Co. or any other private corporation that may want to develop water power in the Tennessee basin...