Word: urals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abandoned and threw to predatory Europe great chunks of Imperial Russia he would never be permitted to get away with founding a Communist State at all. Today Dictator Stalin is creating as much in the way of Russian centres of industry and war bases as possible behind the Ural Mountains. It is no secret that the Soviet General Staff have plans ready, in case Russia is attacked by the "alliance of Capitalist powers" her propagandists talk about, to abandon Leningrad, Moscow and the whole portion of the Soviet Union which just now forms Mr. & Mrs. Davies' world and "retreat...
...radio station in the Fatherland broadcasting his words, with every German who had a radio set instructed to be listening in, and with loudspeakers blaring in the streets and squares of every German city, town and village, Adolf Hitler spoke with his breath-taking simplicity: "If I had the Ural Mountains, if we possessed Siberia, if we had the Ukraine, then Nazi Germany would be swimming in Prosperity! I am not in the fortunate position of the Soviet Jews. Nevertheless, the problems of Germany must be solved! There is no such thing as saying it cannot be done...
This week Cambridge has had another cold spell, and undergraduates have had some more skating on ice which was dangerously thin and appallingly rough, it is true but still ice. It is and that there is nothing nearer than the Ural Mountains to protect Cambridge from an East Wind. It has certainly seemed so to us walking to nine o'clock lectures these last few mornings...
...seat of Chinese air power-aviation being the sole arm in which China begins to have strength-was being transferred 1,400 miles west to Chengtu in almost totally inaccessible Szechwan Province. This move by Generalissimo Chiang resembles that of Soviet Dictator Stalin in establishing strategic bases beyond the Ural Mountains too remote to be attacked by any European power. Szechwan Province, ringed by mountains and penetrated by no railway, will be developed by the Generalissimo, say his friends, into "a great, self-supporting and strategic unit." Larger than France, it is also more populous, and so distant from, Japan...
...developed a palatable blend of apple and cherry which is grown in Siberia, apricots that bloom on snow-covered trees just south of the Arctic Circle, a fruitless lemon tree whose branches yield lemon extract when pressed, frost-resisting grapes that flourish in Moscow and the Ural uplands. Undoubtedly he has produced fruits that yield more abundantly, stand shipment better and grow farther north than the older varieties. To bring out ever new mutations, he shocks with electricity the seeds of apples, watermelons, almonds, squash, plums. Oranges and grapefruit developed by him are grown in the "Soviet Florida...