Word: urals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ural Oil? A big new Russian oil field would relieve the shortage of kerosene in Sovietland. It would also give Russia greater bargaining power in international oil meetings. Last week Russian scientists announced not one such new field but three, all strategically located in the Ural mountains, all prodigiously rich. Production from these fields, they said, would free all other Soviet oil for export. Because the revelation came hard upon an international oil parley which collapsed when Russia would not accept offered terms (TIME, June 13) oilmen accepted it with reservations...
...shoulder at the wheel for three years, must push even harder this year. The heavy industries of coal, metal, transportation, machine building, backbone of the Five-Year Plan, must meet the country's needs. Russia's "industrial giants"?Dnieprostroy (dam), Magnetogorsk (steel city in remote Ural foothills ) etc.?must be pushed to completion. Then the tired Russian shoulder will get a rest, heavy Russian feet may be better shod...
...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...
...revolutionist but no Bolshevik, Vladimir Zenzinov was later a member of the Government in the Urals which fought against the Soviets in 1918. When Dictator Alexander Kolchak overthrew the Ural Government Zenzinov escaped, now lives in Paris, foments trouble for the Soviets...
...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...