Word: magnitogorsk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe-five in England (most of them at Oxford), four in France (the Sorbonne and the Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris), four in Germany (Heidelberg, Berlin, Munich and Leipzig)- three in Austria, two in Switzerland, one in Ireland, one in Italy- and one at the Engineering Institute in Magnitogorsk, Russia...
...MAGNITOGORSK John Scott, who spent ten years in Russia-first as a welder, then as a research chemist, finally as a foreign correspondent...
...millions of her fellow countrymen knew why the Red Armies were relatively well supplied and were winning victories. Veronika knew that: >Much of Soviet industry had been evacuated to the Urals and Siberia, where it was producing more tons of products than all Soviet pre-war industry. >In Magnitogorsk a giant new blast furnace had been blown in, a strange, but fitting, Christmas present from the Russian people to themselves. >Baku oil production was 40% above...
...September 1932 he was ready to tackle his first job-helping to build Siberian Magnitogorsk into a Russian Pittsburgh. He worked three years as a welder, then two years more as a chemist in a coke and chemical by-products plant. He became completely at home among the Russians and married a Russian girl-a teacher of mathematics. Russian is still the language usually spoken in his home in New York-but Mrs. Scott can speak English now and she is mighty glad to be on this side of the Atlantic...
...Magnitogorsk Scott saw factories rise out of the mud-watched a town of 2,000 mushroom into Russia's largest iron and steel stronghold, with an annual production of close to 3,000,000 tons. "Building Magnitogorsk from the ground up caused more casualties than the Battle of the Marne," he says. The story of that tremendous enterprise and its terrific toll in human lives and effort is in his first book, Beyond the Urals...