Word: caspian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LONDON--The British Ministry of Information announced tonight that a plane carrying Maxim Litvinov, Russian Ambassador to the United States, and Laurence Steinhardt, U. S. Ambassador to Russia, landed yesterday at the Caucasion port of Baku on the Caspian...
Adolf Hitler's most vital objective in all Russia is the Caucasus. On that bridge of land between the Black and Caspian Seas lie fields which give Russia 93% of her war-blood: oil. Last week the British appeared to have made the crucial decision to help the Russians keep Hitler away from Caucasian oil as long as possible...
...Hardly anything was well in Iran last week. To be sure, the Majlis (National Assembly) had accepted the Russo-British peace terms whereby: 1) the Russians "for the duration" will occupy a zone 500 miles long and from 50 to 150 miles wide, bordering the Caspian, in the country's northwest; 2) the British in the southwest will occupy another, 400 by 100 miles, embracing the oil fields; 3) all airdromes, communications and roads will be taken over by the Allies...
...correspondent wrote: "The soldiers say: We are caught in the chocolate." But long, mild, dry days are soon due on this front. And here the winter comes late. The Germans, apparently feeling that they had plenty of time to break through to the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea, last week went to work establishing bridge heads across the Dnieper. The destruction of the mighty Dnieperstroy Dam, confirmed last week by German pictures {see cut}, seemed to prevent crossings...
...Girl Scout movements, reconstructed roads and fomented trade and industry with all his being. His greatest accomplishment (next to getting Persia up on its feet) was the 870-mile railroad, which took eleven years to build, cost $160,000,000 and runs from the Persian Gulf to the Caspian...