Word: turkestan
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...cotton market was the purchase by a Lancashire company last week of ?500,000 worth of cotton from the Russian Government. Thus did U. S. and South American cotton growers feel the first effects of the most spectacular achievement of Russia's Five-Year Plan: completion of Turksib (Turkestan-Siberian Railroad), chief purpose of which was to spur cotton production in Central Asia, whose products previously had to reach Europe by camelback...
...Chicago's drainage canal flows out of Lake Michigan in Wilmette, Ill. This will serve the Baha'i's in the western world?some 3,000 believers. Less pretentious but serving some 2,000,000 communicants are the three Eastern temples, at Haifa and Akka in Palestine, Ishquabad in Turkestan (this one was lately seized by the atheist Soviets...
...fortune, encouraged her, went along as navigator, hoped the trip would end in a wedding. Pilot Jimmy Wreaks, scarred and one-eyed from crashes, went because he was paid to fly the ship, thought they had a good chance of coming through. But they did not. Somewhere over Eastern Turkestan oil began to spray back from the engine; Jimmy had to make a forced landing in a rocky valley. The plane was wrecked; Jimmy's foot was hurt; the others were all right...
...diary Stanislaw tells of the story he is about to write based on his experiences as a war-prisoner in Turkestan. Page by page, as he writes it, it is sandwiched in between his journal entries. The same people appear in the diary as in the novel: Stanislaw, his wife Zosia, his friend Felix, Marusia, his Turkestan inamorata. In the diary you see Stanislaw's life as a government clerk, his evenings devoted to writing, his wife's attempts to make him a social celebrity, her flirtations to arouse his jealousy. The novel tells of two Austro-Polish...
TURKSIB?Good newsreel of the building of the Turkestan-Siberian railway (TIME, June...