Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people if they will buy; in the case of the salesman of dye stuffs it will consist of calling on the purchasing agents, shop superintendents, and others who are using and buying dye stuffs. In the case of the salesman of suspension bridges it will mean carefully examining the map of the territory for possible business and calling on the county and state commissioners. Much has been said of that indefinable personality which a salesman should have. Here I think, however, we have again done some debunking. The only personality requirement for successful sales work is that...
...many another Manhattan bank also enjoyed sensational rises. The bull movement in bank stocks was based on the official ratification of the Guaranty Trust Co.-National Bank of Commerce merger (TIME, March 4) and the resultant activity of rumor-spreaders who busily reasserted and consolidated Manhattan's banking map...
...contents himself with a quieter amusement. It is a chess-wise war game. The board is 20 ft. long, 4 ft. wide, a topographical relief map of an imaginary coast line. There are 20,000 square kilometers and over 4,000 pieces, representing every arm of war. Sixteen levels are used, affecting the "travel" and "range" of the miniature units. The game is played in weekly sessions over a period of months. Five Generals and a Commander-in-Chief play simultaneously on each side. The Commander-in-Chief walks back and forth behind his subordinates, surveying the entire field...
...runs west from Baltimore to Cumberland, then stretches a long northern arm off to Chicago and a long southern arm off to St. Louis. It has also short but vital trackage between Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia. Through West Virginia, southwestern Pennsylvania and Ohio, the B. & O. map shows many little criss-cross branches. West of Cincinnati and Toledo, however, its main lines stretch out in lonely isolation and in the critical region between Philadelphia and New York it has no trackage; it must operate over the lines of the Reading and the Jersey Central roads...
...that statement expresses something in Commander Byrd which the press, while hailing his exploits scientific and otherwise, has found it hard to understand. Byrd the explorer, Byrd the grown-up Boy Scout, have obscured Byrd the romanticist, who now, in his wife's name, is recorded on the map of the world...