Word: uralic
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...delayed because Russian mechanics, confusing gallons and litres, had overloaded the plane, and the excess fuel had to be siphoned out. It was 5 a. m. when the Winnie Mae roared into the East again. Still clipping off 150 m.p. it fol- lowed the Trans-Sib over the Ural mountains, landed after eleven hours at Novo Sibirsk. Another respite of eight hours, then on to Irkutsk and the half way mark, 1,050 mi. farther...
...mining 10,000 tons of asbestos rock daily in Azbest. . . . "The largest construction camp in the world" going full blast at Magnetogorsk on the Capitalist "piece work" system, building what is to be "the greatest steel centre on Earth. ..." A dam three quarters of a mile long across the Ural River completed in four months...
...must be granted that the late lamented Boston Elevated power plant was not one of Cambridge's architect ural beauties. But its demise and the foundations of Eliot House rising on its ruins have creased one more of Harvard's fast disappearing traditions...
...globe. The second difficulty is that, if the majestic idea of a vast federation is actually carried out in Europe, two of the most important units must he omitted. The first of them is Russia. Five-sixths of the population of that Soviet Union live west of the Ural Mountains, commonly considered the boundary between Europe and Asia. But Russia has put out creepers across Asia which are not compatible with membership in a European federation. To be sure, the Soviet Union is the strongest believer on the globe in international unification. The Russian idea, however...
...East moved the fabulous grey shape. Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Hearst explorer-correspondent reported: "Astonished people rushed to the streets in night attire and, scared and frightened, I judge, almost out of their wits, just as quickly rushed back to their homes." The Graf Zeppelin crossed the Ural Mountains and then was in Asia...