Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exacting of the Russians losses at least as heavy. The precise location of the battle line was not revealed by either Berlin or Moscow communiqués, but Moscow reported this week that fighting was going on "in Stalingrad." The heaviest pressure and steadiest German progress was from the southwest, toward the Volga bend directly below Stalingrad. There the Germans had lost as many as 60 tanks on a single sector, but slowly they thundered...
...industrial smoke which rose over Stalingrad during three Five-Year Plans that changed a country town into a modern city, that upped its population from 150,000 to 500,000. From the great tractor plant on Stalingrad's northern outskirts to the metallurgical works on the southwest, chemical, machinery, leather, oil and many other industrial plants were scattered through the city. Most of them were turned to war production, so that when the battle neared Stalingrad tanks rolled from factory to front. Interspersed among the factories were workers' housing developments, many gardens, miles of parks...
While firing squads went to work, the furnace chimneys of southwest Luxembourg grew cold, the smoky "black country" grew bright again. Work stopped in steel mills. The strike spread countrywide...
Most vanadium used in the U.S. has been imported from Peru and Southwest Africa. Now vanadium can be extracted from Idaho phosphate deposits. Hitherto this has been impracticable because Idaho's 6,000,000,000 tons of phosphate rock contain only 500,000 tons of vanadium, a mere one-tenth to one-fourth of one per cent vanadium. This concentration would be too low for practicable extraction, were it not for the fact that Anaconda Copper Co. is already processing over 100,000 tons of phosphates a year as fertilizer. From this tonnage some 200 to 250 tons...
...undulant plateau before Stalingrad, the Germans and the Russians waged one of the great battles of history. Upwards of 1,000,000 men, many thousands of guns and tanks, many hundreds of planes met in and over the gentle valleys and the rolling hillocks of the steppes northwest and southwest of the city...