Word: constantsa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sprawling, smelly Rumanian port of Constantsa last month, a tough gang of greasy longshoremen looked expectantly out to sea. Over five months had elapsed since Joseph Stalin agreed to send Russian oil to help Adolf Hitler win his war, and just about to come snailing into Constantsa at last was the first load of Soviet crude for the Nazis...
...Sakhaline, bung full with 70,000 barrels of crude from the Caucasus, and three more Soviet tankers tagged in her wake. Often before Constantsa dock hands had cheered the arrival of ships from the "Toilers' Fatherland," fraternized in waterfront dives with Soviet sailors. This reception of the Sakhaline was the warmest ever-but different. Shaking their fists, the longshoremen bellowed at the crew to haul down the Soviet flag. "Since Russia attacked Finland, the workers of Rumania know that 'Democracy' is used by the Soviets only as a catch word!" explained the longshoremen's leader...
...west. While the Russian transportation system never has been much, Germany's has been so overworked of late that it has begun seriously to deteriorate. Despite all the bluff about Russia supplying oil to the Reich, it was noted last week that at the Rumanian port of Constantsa on the Black Sea, the first post-pact Russian tanker with oil consigned to Germany had just arrived. The shipment-12,000 tons-was to be refined in Rumania and then shipped by rail through Hungary to the Reich-a long, expensive process...