Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Continued he: "While in all oil fields in the world the production since 1917 has considerably increased, the Soviet have barely attained the Russian pre-War production, and this only thanks to the new Grozny field, which was discovered by the old owners shortly before the War, and which, therefore, only began to yield considerable quantities...
...Deterding says that the Soviet oil industry has barely attained the pre-War level. He does not add that the Soviet authorities took over Russian oil fields five or six years ago with equipment almost completely destroyed by forces with which Deterding is not entirely familiar. Soviet money was used to reconstruct the industry almost from the bottom up to its present level, and this reconstruction required about...
Excitment over the discovery of America yesterday has left the Vagabond with only sufficient energy to list lectures of interest today and tomorrow, in a field of good things the following seem pre-eminent...
Last Saturday afternoon, armed with my "H. A. A.", I joined the crowd in what was labelled the cheering section. True, it had the pre-whistle appearance of one: row upon row of potential cheerers, five energetic cheerleaders and a Band which has no equal in the college world. The cheering section of my Alma Mater never numbered over 499 effective voices, but many times it has been heard for five miles. The so-called Harvard cheering section of Saturday must have numbered over 2000; I doubt if it was heard beyond the Yard and after Purdue scored a listener...
...Baffin Island's unexplored west coast yielded to an expedition under direction of Publisher George Palmer Putnam, evidence of a great new mountain range that may yet cause the map of North America to be changed. Traces of a pre-Eskimo civilization (called by the explorers Tunic) pointed to a lost race...