Word: ural
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Esther L. Witkowska, a Pole, who was deported to work in the Degtyanka copper mines in the Ural Mountains, related: "I was assigned to the Moskva-Komsomol-skaya pits . . . Upon my arrival I found some Polish girls, still in their teens, from a previous transport. . . The girls told me how, when they first came to work in the pits, they cried with fear. The working day [was] eleven hours long. The only meal we had during those eleven hours was black bread and water . . . Punishment for ... tardiness was three months in prison...
Most scientists believe that the Asiatic immigrants who people the Americas crossed Bering Strait in a low state of culture. But the Ipiutak people, Larsen thinks, were a notable exception. They brought along a rich, if savage, Siberian culture, with roots as far away as the Ural Mountains. Among the remarkable objects found in Ipiutak ruins are chains and swivels cut laboriously out of walrus ivory. They have no strength and are obviously not for use. Larsen believes that the Ipiutaks, pushing farther & farther into Arctic America, eventually lost touch with their sources of metal. But their religion still demanded...
...High prices, goods scarcities, and starvation wages might be having popular repercussions. For a fortnight there have been rumors of unrest in Russia, especially in the Ural region. Last week TIME learned from an informed source that riots in the Ukraine are "grave...
...only outlet-the sky-the Caspian annually gives in evaporation about 410 billion cubic meters of water. From the sky it receives back some 70 billion in rainfall. The difference must be made up by the Volga, Ural and other smaller rivers. In recent years, the Volga's contribution has fallen short. Without G.V.P., prospects look dim for such ports as Batum-and for the caviar industry...
...barren steppes behind the Ural Mountains more than a decade ago Soviet workers wrested a city of iron: Magnitogorsk. They paid for it with blood and sweat and countless rubles. They built it with modern tools and with their naked hands, and they are still building it today. The reward for them, and for those who built other great industrial centers in the Urals, was nothing less than the salvation of their country from the Germans...