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Word: narin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...more than half the U. S. S. R.'s cotton) hundreds of thousands of Uzbek and Tajik farmers last year produced a "miracle": in a little more than a month they dug a canal, 170 miles long, 25 yards wide and 15 to 30 feet deep, from the Narin River to the great cotton-growing region south of the ancient city of Kokand. This year the Great Fergana Canal was lengthened to 217 miles, now irrigates 838 square miles, improves the irrigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Boom on the Steppes | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

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