Word: campinas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fourth, the lack of housing and fuel is beginning to be seriously felt as winter approaches. Some towns, like Ploesti and Campina, have been almost completely destroyed by bombing. The influx of Russian troops sharpened the housing shortage. As a result, the Rumanians are beginning to requisition housing themselves for their people...
Focsani, 100 miles northeast of Bucharest and the epicentre of the quake, was reported in ruins; Galatz, site of the German submarine base, suffered severely; and Giurgiu, principal oil port on the Danube, saw public buildings and factories reduced to mangled heaps. In Campina, thickly populated oil town, refinery chimneys toppled, houses collapsed, and pipelines burst, dousing the ground with a gummy and inflammable threat. In the heavily guarded Ploesti field a few fires broke out, were later reported extinguished. Buckled tracks, collapsed bridges, severed telephone cables and German censorship stopped traffic and disrupted communications throughout Rumania, prevented the true...
| 1 |