Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long has the desert of Ruba-el-Khali ("Abode of Loneliness"), wild, waterless, utterly unknown, remained "the white blot on the map." The southern interior of Arabia, centre of population and geography of the Old World, circled by ocean liners and near airplane routes, its 300,000 sandy square miles have challenged and beaten back explorers since the Middle Ages. No European had seen its mysterious, lethal interior until this winter hardy Englishman Bertram Thomas trekked 900 mi. across its arid wastes, from Dhofar on the Arabian Sea to Dohah on the Persian Gulf, where he emerged last week...
Sometimes TIME is almost too accurate and tells too much. In your map of Nassau-issue of Jan. 26-you tag Andros with "World's best bone-fishing." This is perfectly true-but I had hoped that it was, at least, a partial secret. How did you find...
Russia. By "dumping" (or its practical equivalents) Stalin has sown uneasiness among "the enemy." With his ruthless Five-Year Plan he has wiped Unemployment from the map of Russia (as Scot MacDonald could not do in Britain). Finally Stalin, who for years ruled Russia obscurely as a "political boss" (General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party), has just thrown off this mask, assumed public office for the first time during his dictatorship, and proved who is absolute master of some 150,000,000 people by kicking into oblivion their nominal Prime Minister, luckless Comrade Alexey Rykov (TIME, Dec. 29). Germany...
...Gleaming new electric interurban cars at Baku (in Asia) entering an enormous new railway station in Eurasian style (see map sketch). . . . Prosperity in the place where Red oil comes from. . . . Stalin's mother at Tiflis (TIME, Dec. 8). . . . Chiaturi, which produces the manganese used in one U. S. auto out of every...
...Moscow is on "iron rations" of food, clothing, shoes; but in remote, unheard-of-cities, in "strategic centres of production" such as Azbest, Magneto-gorsk and Dnieprostroy (see map), the diarist found abundant food, clothing and shoes for the new pampered aristocracy of toil...