Word: damodar
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...Sindri, on the banks of the River Damodar, where five years ago were only mud huts in paddyfields, a new $48 million ammonium sulphate factory stood last week. It was the first big project completed by Prime Minister Nehru's government, and a source of swelling pride to India. In a land where famine is often a threat and sometimes a reality (3,000,000 people died of starvation in 1943), the development of artificial fertilizers to stimulate food crops has long been a dream of the Nehru government...
...still shone violently next day when Activist Bose staged his big challenge. In a field across the Damodar River, within shouting distance of the Gandhi camp, Suhhas Bose harangued 5,000 of his followers. He damned Gandhi's dilatory tactics, pointed out how Mussolini sprang into action in 1922, demanded similar sudden decisions in the India of 1940. Then he mounted a farmer's cart drawn by two white bullocks, and as his followers carried banners (including the hammer-&-sickle), he rode in loud triumph right through the Gandhi camp. For the moment, the race was to Bose...