Word: maikop
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Most apiarists have supposed that bees thrive only on nectar, but a Soviet bee student, E. Arefyeff of the Maikop Agricultural Research Station, thought of trying them on other foods. He fed them nectar, laced with essences of fruits, fruit-tree leaves, aromatic grasses like mint. The honeyed results were pleasing. Fruit-fed bees produced honey rich in vitamin C; mint-fed bees gave honey that had pleas ant fragrance as well as taste...
...Caucasian Campaign was for oil, and last week the Germans lost Maikop, the only oil center they had captured. They also lost a controlling point (Tikhoretsk) on the rail line connecting Rostov with the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk, the Germans' only alternate way of retreat from the Caucasus, and that alternative was itself being threatened near Krasnodar. The Stalingrad area had been almost cleared (see below), releasing troops and freeing rail lines for the Rostov battles...
Stalingrad was a graveyard for 100,000 of the Herrenvolk's fresh, young sons, The Caucasian oilfields of Maikop were lost. Along the Eastern Front, along the North African coast, the Fuhrer's hurt and weary armies were in retreat...
South of Malinovsky's Armies, in the north Caucasus, is another force, under General I. V. Tulienev, which last week captured the Maikop oil fields. Black-moustached, fun-loving General Tulienev is an expert in mountain warfare, often zips up to the front on skis...
...Germans have attained their minimum objectives in the northwestern Caucasus. They hold Rostov, the naval base at Novorossisk, the Maikop oilfield 65 miles from the coast, the upper reaches of the Transcaucasian railway between Rostov and the Caspian. Last week they were fighting for Tuapse, a minor port on the Black Sea, 270 miles across winter-locked mountain passes from Batum...