Word: basins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Plan was to build a base of heavy industry far from dangerous European borders. Around the biggest coal deposit in the world, in the Kuznetsk Basin in mid-Siberia, mines were opened, steel mills built. The huge magnetic iron-ore mountain at Magnitogorsk in the Urals got other mills. A tractor and rifle factory went up at Chelyabinsk near...
...British believe they have "a pretty good chance of holding Suez and Egypt," are reasonably confident about the struggle for the Mediterranean basin, expect a bitter scrap, believe Gibraltar can withstand a land attack...
Harvard's House crow season comes to a close this afternoon when five House first crews and an undetermined number of seconds race over the Henley course in the Basin. The eights of Eliot, long noted as the bulwark of House rowing, are favored to finish first in both events...
Outsailing all but one of its 17 college opponents, the dinghy tars of the Crimson chalked up 109 points to take runner-up honors behind Princeton in the races for the Morss Cup in the Intercollegiate Dinghy Racing Championship on the Charles River Basin yesterday afternoon...
Eliot House's big, experienced eight found little difficulty in winning the right to meet the champion Yale College crew later on this spring. The Merrymen chalked up a decisive, three-length victory over the second-place Winthrop crew in a mile race over the Basin yesterday afternoon. Adams and Leverett trailed the leading shells...