Word: basins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Death. To Russia, lean-ribbed after 27 months of pain and sacrifice, victory tasted sweet. It was hard to see towns go up in smoke, but it was good to know that in the blazing fires Hitler's hope of victory burned to dead ashes. The Donets Basin, Russia's Pennsylvania-om-Kansas, was free. The first train of Donets Basin coal reached Moscow. Red Army units were only 40-odd miles from the Dnieper, only 80-odd miles from Kiev...
...Most troublesome small-fry employer to defy WLB has been Brooklyn's Bernard Moran, owner of the Atlantic Basin Iron Works (TIME, July 26). For three months, tough, sullen Bernard Moran had stubbornly resisted WLB's order to sign a union security contract (maintenance-of-membership) with the C.I.O. Marine & Shipbuilding Workers Union. Last week, after a hearing at which doughy Bernard Moran breathed fire and brimstone, WLB ordered his yard seized by the Government...
...Some other recent sales (and their ages as sustainers): BLUE NETWORK-Meet Your Navy (7 months), Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin St. (3 years); CBS-Report to the Nation (2½ years), New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra (13 years); NBC-NBC Symphony Orchestra (6 years); MUTUAL-It Pays to Be Ignorant (5 months...
...cracked and crumbled, there was a thunderous echo from the south. From a series of intermittent clashes, an other huge Soviet force emerged in a swift and surprise smash at Belgorod. Within a single day that key to the lush grainfields of the Ukraine and the rich industrial Donets basin fell, too, and the Red Army crushed...
...Objectives. The Russian push toward Bryansk, if successful, would open the path to Smolensk as well as yield the Russians control over the six main rail roads radiating from Bryansk. The pincers movement converging on Kharkov threat ens the German-occupied Donets basin, most valuable prize of the Nazis in Russia...