Word: omsk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life is rougher, tougher than in most cities, but the people work hard, seem happy. Said Works Director Nosov: "Two or three years after the war we will have time to build thousands of new individual homes, streetcar lines, roads, theaters, cinemas, clubs, restaurants." But now-in Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tashkent, Alma-Ata-production for war is all that matters. In the 15 years since Stalin decreed the creation of this industrial reserve in Asiatic Russia, the Soviet Union had achieved neither the capacity nor the efficiency of the industrial U.S. But the Russians had done a miraculous...
Nice Place, Omsk. Everywhere the correspondents saw the signs and fruits of the vast migration from western Russia. In Omsk, young workers scrubbed clean of factory dirt danced to Russian and U.S. jazz. They had come from all parts of the Soviet Union. Some were anxious to get home, but most seemed to think Omsk a nice place to live and learn, were willing to do what the State decreed...
...hour for which the 13th had waited. They were tough, soft-spoken men from Omsk and Barnaul in faraway Siberia. They had arrived in Stalingrad by forced marches-125 miles in one two-day trek-and there in the battered factories had taken up their positions. For six weary weeks, under almost ceaseless shelling and air assaults, hacked at by infantry and tanks, the gaunt 13th had held the ditches, the doorways, the alleys and the gutted buildings. On their holding depended the success of Marshal Timoshenko's strategy...
...suggestions of a number of listeners to Manhattan's WQXR were to be taken seriously by the United Nations, show bills like the above would soon appear on hoardings from Omsk to Acapulco. Advance ticket sales might well defray much of the cost of the war. Asked by WQXR's Commentator Estelle Sternberger what the world should do with Hitler if he were captured alive, no less than 45 responses recommended an international tour in a cage...
This incident did not take place in Russia. It happened at a tank factory in the British Midlands. The man and woman from Omsk were Soviet Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Ivan Maisky & wife. The workers were good beef-eating, royalty-loving British munitions laborers. Last week was Tanks-for-Russia Week, and the British were so eager to help the Russians that they acted like Russians themselves...