Word: vastest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amudaria, is famed as the longest stream in Asiatic Russia (1,500 mi.). Superstitious peasants call it "The Strewer of Life." The other river is the Sirdaria, "The Giver of Gold." Together they will supply 10,000 cubic feet of water per second for one of the vastest irrigation projects of modern times. Once watered, the "Hungry Desert" will present ideal conditions for growing cotton, should double the present output of Turkestan. Last week Mr. Davis told Moscow correspondents that $250,000,000 will be spent on this stupendous irrigation work, said that he will supervise. Pressed for details...
...Thus ends in catastrophe the vastest and most futile attempt in history to create artificially a new industry," said the London Daily Chronicle with reference to the death of the subsidy plan. " A new chapter now opens for the British Mercantile Marine...