Word: dnieper
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...urban and industrial reconstruction, the Ukraine has fine executive and technical talent at the top official and engineering levels. Lower down is a notable lack of tools, trained supervisors and skilled labor. At the Dnieper Dam, the three head engineers were pupils of the dam's late famed U.S. builder, Hugh Cooper. Two of them had studied in the U.S. Their assistants, however, are inexperienced young engineers. Qualified foremen are rare and 40% of the labor force is made up of inefficient peasant girls, many of whom are prematurely aged by the hard manual work...
Shaping Up. Still Zhukov hesitated before Berlin, waiting while the whole line assumed the same curving shape it had held on the Vistula, on the Dnieper. Along the Oder, Red Army engineers split boxlike German windmills to build barges for their tanks...
...Leningrad drive pushes through to Estonia, the Russians break across the Dnieper...
March 4, as the Russians finish mopping up 15 Nazi divisions in the Dnieper Bend, they start their drive across the Ukraine...
Marsh Job. Sending his troops slogging through the Pripet Marshes, Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky seized Pinsk, after bombarding it from gunboats sent into the Pripet River from the Dnieper. Then he started to erase the German salient in the marshes, at the base of which lay Brest-Litovsk...