Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...factories, they've been going up so fast east of the Urals that you can hardly recognize a town if you come back to it a month later. . . ." Heineberg example : Novosibirsk, Western Siberian city with a population of more than a million, which now blazes at night with the lights of new iron and steel, plane and munitions plants. Many another hinterland town, said Heineberg, has been similarly transformed into a modern industrial city of American-style concrete and steel buildings...
...engineers, architects, intellectuals and Army and Government officials are lavished with money and privileges. Even the very young ones all appear to get the equivalent of about $450 monthly, with large bonuses for working in the new Siberian plants and outposts...
...Some of these youngsters were going westward on one of my trips on the Trans-Siberian. Their pockets bulged with cash. They drank vodka before breakfast and champagne with their meals. The meals alone cost $4 in American money - I was a piker in such company...
...underwater strength. Yet time urged them on. By October monsoon winds would blow into action, lashing the east coast of Malaya and the Indies with turbulent waters. Landing under such difficulties would double the risk. The monsoon for the admirals was a time limit almost as compelling as the Siberian winter for the generals. In another six months, by April., when the monsoons are over, the Netherlands Indies might be almost impregnable...
...last year) and Great Britain. In the early part of World War II, Japan found a profitable customer in Germany, which sent its No. 1 traveling salesman, Helmuth Wohlthat, to Tokyo this spring to try to streamline Japanese industry and arrange shipments over the Trans-Siberian Railway. But the Russian war has cut off that trade, and Japan is more than ever dependent on the U.S. and Britain...