Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Daring, farsighted, iron-willed Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin last week unfolded yet another phase of his famed Five-Year Program (TIME, Sept. 9 et ante), designed to make Red Russia economically independent of the rest of the world by 1933. Today the Soviet Union grows in Russian Turkestan 50% of the cotton it consumes, imports the rest from the U. S. and Egypt. How much more cotton can Turkestan be made to yield? For weeks the Soviet Supreme Economic Council has been thrashing out that question with a sagacious and experienced U. S. citizen, Engineer Arthur Powell Davis...
Last week the Council and Mr. Davis announced a bold solution of Russia's cotton problem. Into the vast parched plain known as the Golodnaya Steppes or "Hungry Desert" two mighty rivers will be diverted. One, the Amudaria, is famed as the longest stream in Asiatic Russia (1,500 mi.). Superstitious peasants call it "The Strewer of Life." The other river is the Sirdaria, "The Giver of Gold." Together they will supply 10,000 cubic feet of water per second for one of the vastest irrigation projects of modern times. Once watered, the "Hungry Desert" will present ideal conditions...
...Soviet Government by its decision today will probably make the greatest single contribution to human advancement in this remote and dreaded part of middle Asia since Russia was founded 1,000 years...
Irrigation-conscious observers recalled that Russia is already third among nations in the extent of her artificially watered areas...