Word: camelback
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 15,000 workers and their families (totaling 35,000) were shipped by barge and camelback to the job site, have lived there in tents and eaten up most of the money. Lack of rationalization (coordination) permitted the Balkhazhstroy project to be launched on a schedule calling for the arrival of 300,000 tons of construction materials yearly?whereas the most that Lake Balkhazh's two tiny steamers and three barges have been able to carry is 10,000 tons for the year just ended...
...South American cotton growers feel the first effects of the most spectacular achievement of Russia's Five-Year Plan: completion of Turksib (Turkestan-Siberian Railroad), chief purpose of which was to spur cotton production in Central Asia, whose products previously had to reach Europe by camelback...