Word: magnitogorsk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remember Scott as the TIME editor who lived ten years under Stalin's rule, worked first as a welder in Siberian Magnitogorsk, later as Moscow correspondent 'for the London News Chronicle and the New York Times...
...barren steppes behind the Ural Mountains more than a decade ago Soviet workers wrested a city of iron: Magnitogorsk. They paid for it with blood and sweat and countless rubles. They built it with modern tools and with their naked hands, and they are still building it today. The reward for them, and for those who built other great industrial centers in the Urals, was nothing less than the salvation of their country from the Germans...
...Christmas Day, 1943, Magnitogorsk had a celebration. The first red rivulet of molten iron flowed from the sixth blast furnace to be erected in the city, the second to be built there since the war began...
...Iron Core. Magnitogorsk was named for a mountain which contained 275,000,000 tons of 62% pure magnetic iron ore. With the rest of the Soviet Union's Urals development, it was the iron core of Russian resistance after the Germans seized the industrial Ukraine. Today its furnaces, blooming, billet, rolling and wiredrawing mills, its machine shops and aluminum plants cover 2 7 square miles. The furnaces produce more steel than all of Russia under the Czars; and Magnitogorsk is still expanding...
...Magnitogorsk's No. 7 furnace, planned for 1944, may be the world's largest...