Word: basins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foresight. For the last decade Russia has paid increasing attention to the development of great new industrial areas. One straddles, and partly hides behind, the Urals. Another is the Kuznetsk Basin, next to Outer Mongolia. In the extreme south, centered at Tashkent, there is a less concentrated area, mainly of light industries such as textiles...
...Rump. Except for two shortages-manganese and mercury-Russia's great 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...
Critics of Munich men did not worry about dynamic Supply Minister Lord Beaverbrook, whose verbal leaps into bed with Russia have been spectacular, who has reportedly urged a British Expeditionary Force in the Ukraine or the Donets Basin. But the testy, growling Beaver himself was stirring up a Cabinet crisis that might bring about a drastic reorganization. Last week he was wheezing with his periodic asthma. His sickness may have been partly political, for he threatened to resign. Behind his threat was seen a warning that he would like the non existent post of Minister of Production, a powerful combination...
Relaxing in Newell boathouse after the excitement of the tightly contested race in the Basin yesterday afternoon. Tom Boles seemed well satisfied with the results of rowing on the river this Fall...
LONDON--Russian troops were reported to have seized the offensive today northwest of Moscow, where they advanced three miles on a wide front and recaptured several villages, and in the Donets Basin, where they gained new positions around Gorlovs, 100 miles northwest of Rostov...