Word: tashkent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long ago as 1900, according to Shimkin, the Russians began looking for radioactive minerals. The best find was at Tyuya Muyun in the Fergana Valley of Central Asia, 200 miles east of Tashkent -where a mine was opened in 1908. By the end of 1913, it had produced 1,044 tons of ore containing vanadium, copper and about .82% of uranium. At 26 pounds of U-235 per atom bomb (a current guess), this early production could have yielded theoretically enough "fissionable material" for four bombs. The Tyuya Muyun mine was still producing in 1936, when it (and some radioactive...
...being grouped in six armies whose locations suggest the fronts on which Soviet Russia expects to have to fight in the event of another war: North army, based on Leningrad; Western army, based on Minsk; Southern army, based on Odessa; Caucasian army, based on Tiflis; Turkestan army, based on Tashkent and Frunze; Far Eastern army, based on Chita and Vladivostok. The armies are commanded as follows: Northern, Marshal Klimenti E. Voroshilov; Western, Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky; Southern, Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov; Caucasian, Marshal Ivan Bagramian; Turkestan, Marshal Semion K. Timoshenko; Far Eastern, Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky. Eight hundred thousand...
...look. The villainess of the piece, female Senator Faye Sumner Knott, (sic) has predatory eyes slanted toward Adam, but partisan politics interfere. The first Adam is not to be Republican. In desperation, the U.S. turns to A.I. (artificial insemination), lest the Russians exploit two normal Mongolians newly discovered in Tashkent and outstrip the American effort...
...have to look under the table any longer--there's a real live Red standing up!" In fact, there were twenty-four of them, straight from the Soviet Union. They had flown into Prague just two days before the opening of the Student's Congress--dark, semimongoloid Usbeke from Tashkent, tall Latvians from Rigs, and a dazzling blonde from the Ukraine...
Cascade to Tashkent. War or no war, the July 9 eclipse was one of the best observed in history. The moon's shadow, falling on the earth at 6:14 a.m. at Cascade, Idaho, raced at 47 miles a minute across Montana, Canada, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, disappearing after just two hours and 27 minutes at Tashkent, in Turkestan (see diagram). The total eclipse followed a very narrow path (maximum width: 58 miles, in Greenland), but it covered a long stretch of land area. One of the most elaborately equipped expeditions (a Harvard-led group at Bredenbury...