Word: caspian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treaty provides that the Russians can build a dam on the Murghab River, to irrigate the barren steppes of the neighboring Turkmen Soviet Republic. It also consolidates Russia's hold on the strategically important Trans-Caspian Railroad, a branch of which ends at Kushka, near Afghan and Iranian oil. In return, Afghanistan got a couple of small islands...
...Russia. Teheran needed Russia's support in domesticating Azerbaijan's Russian-inspired rebels. Trouble was brewing elsewhere in Iran. As the Red Army withdrew, rightist politicians and landowners, who consider Premier Ahmed Gavam's Government proSoviet, were going on the warpath. In Mazanderan, along the Caspian coast, armed bands were attacking left-wing peasants and workers. In Khorosan, fundamentalist Mohammedans were organizing to combat Communist influence by abolishing the reforms made a generation ago by Reza Shah Pahlevi. Among their chief aims: return to veils for women and beards...
...Over the Caspian we flew wavetop high. At one point we were within 50 miles of the Russian frontier. We ran across troops on the move at the confluence of the Send and Shah Rivers. A long column of horse-drawn artillery and trucks, two miles long", stretched along both sides of the road in a hairpin bend. Several hundred troops basked in the sun alongside the vehicles. There must have been hundreds more within the trucks. Just outside Kazvin we saw a column of infantry marching up the road. Behind them came carts, piled high with desks, tables, telephone...
...part of the G.V.P. is TIME Mapmaker Chapin's technical audacity (same issue, same page) in moving the city of Batum (pop. 70,807) a full 600 miles across Soviet Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan from its customary place on the Black Sea, to the low-level Caspian...
...only outlet-the sky-the Caspian annually gives in evaporation about 410 billion cubic meters of water. From the sky it receives back some 70 billion in rainfall. The difference must be made up by the Volga, Ural and other smaller rivers. In recent years, the Volga's contribution has fallen short. Without G.V.P., prospects look dim for such ports as Batum-and for the caviar industry...