Word: basins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kharkov was of supreme importance. Without it, the German salient reaching eastward into the Donets basin would be vulnerable to flank attack from the north, the German north-south lines would be seriously interrupted. With it, the Germans would be in the best position for an advance (if advance the Germans can) into the soft area between Stalingrad and Moscow. Early this week the Russians admitted that they had lost Kharkov...
...China, in the rich Red Basin of the Yangtze, the old wooden water gates and the interlocking channels of the 2,200-year-old irrigation system, installed a few years after Alexander invaded India, are still working this month. In Argentina on these hot midsummer days the crowds from Buenos Aires are swarming to the playground of Mar del Plata, to gamble in the biggest casino in the world. The earth that has been carrying war around the sun has carried as well the work and the relaxations, the moviegoing, horse racing, kiteflying, card-playing, visiting, talking, worshiping life...
...time was favoring the Germans. Bogged in the mud 30 miles east of Dnepropetrovsk was the crucial drive of Colonel General Nikolai Vatutin's armies, striving to reach the Dnieper and cut off the Germans in the Donets Basin...
...most serious Russian setback came in the Donets Basin itself, where the Red Army has been trying for two weeks to smash south against the main German armies. The Germans halted the drive with heavy counterattacks against the Russian right flank northwest of Stalino. This week Berlin claimed that other forces crossed the Donets River near Izyum. If this report was true, it meant that the Germans may succeed in breaking up the Red Army's drives through the Donets and toward the Dnieper...
...Donets Basin, now almost completely reconquered, the Germans had had plenty of time (18 months) to begin the production of synthetic gasoline from coal...