Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Dead men had been coming down the mountain all evening, lashed on to the backs of mules. . . . The first one came early in the morning. They slid him down from the mule, and stood him on his feet for a moment. In the half light he might have been merely a sick man standing there leaning on the other. Then they laid him in the shadow of the stone wall...
Then a soldier came into the cowshed and said there were some more bodies out side. We went out into the road. Four mules stood there in the moonlight, in the road where the trail came down off the mountain. The soldiers who led them stood there waiting...
...interferes with anything he says or proposes to say. He writes his own material, utters his own opinions. Vandercook rarely goes in for prediction. His military analyses have benefited from his acute sense of geography. Says he: "The tactics of the desert, the tactics of the mountain are geographical. . . . When we take a machine-gun nest in Italy, I don't say the German lines have been smashed. In that kind of terrain, there is no such thing as the smashing of a line. You can smash a line in plains...
...Aleutians they swung from ropes to chisel footholes in the solid rock of steep cliffs, and working on the mountain's precipitous wall in a driving rain constructed a track for a traveling carriage...