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Word: darvaz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Kazak, only recently prospected, are now yielding 5,500,000 tons a year, and the once Godforsaken hamlet of Karaganda has become a modern city. So has Kounrad, where the mining of extensive copper deposits around Lake Balkhash has begun. Sulfur plants have sprung up in the hills of Darvaz in Turkestan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Boom on the Steppes | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

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