Word: siberias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Veronika and millions of her fellow countrymen knew why the Red Armies were relatively well supplied and were winning victories. Veronika knew that: >Much of Soviet industry had been evacuated to the Urals and Siberia, where it was producing more tons of products than all Soviet pre-war industry. >In Magnitogorsk a giant new blast furnace had been blown in, a strange, but fitting, Christmas present from the Russian people to themselves. >Baku oil production was 40% above...
Pogue believes the answer is reasonable freedom of the air. For like many another air-minded expert he knows that the shortest route from Washington to Manila is not across the Pacific, but passes over the Great Lakes to Canada, on to Alaska, then down the coast of Siberia. He knows, too, that the air oceans are not bounded by ocean shorelines; that European planes will someday want to fly over U.S. territory direct to Chicago from London, just as U.S. air transports may want to take off from St. Louis for Cairo and way ports...
...hour for which the 13th had waited. They were tough, soft-spoken men from Omsk and Barnaul in faraway Siberia. They had arrived in Stalingrad by forced marches-125 miles in one two-day trek-and there in the battered factories had taken up their positions. For six weary weeks, under almost ceaseless shelling and air assaults, hacked at by infantry and tanks, the gaunt 13th had held the ditches, the doorways, the alleys and the gutted buildings. On their holding depended the success of Marshal Timoshenko's strategy...
Faster and less vulnerable than the water route, the railway would insure transportation to make Alaska a supply base for a drive against Japan-should Siberia be opened to U.S. forces...
...Siberia's harvested area increased by 2,100,000 acres over last year. In Kazakstan and central Asia land sown to winter grains increased by a half-million acres; in the Black Earth region, by 1,250,000 acres. The ratio of men to women in Russia's fields was about 3-to-100 (prewar average...