Word: batum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first ship of the first direct and regular service to be established between the U. S. and Russia since the War. Other A. E. L. ships will follow at ten-day intervals, crossing the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Sea in a total of 30 days, stopping at Novorossiisk, Batum and Odessa. Collectivization Day. Every autumn there is fierce squabbling and often fistic battle between Russian farmers and the Soviet grain collectors empowered to cart away the surplus portion of their crops. The collectors pay a fixed low price for what they take, perhaps a fifth of what the grain fetches...
...grab the world, until he finally gets control of the major portion of the world's oil production or else exploits it advantageously for himself in a trust in which his fellow members are Rockefeller, Rothschild, Sinclair, Urquhart, Kemal Pasha and the Soviet Governments of Baku and Batum...