Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year the Interstate Commerce Commission loudly warned against these holding companies, insisted their undercover activities were already blurring the I. C. C.'s merger map (TIME. Dec. 16). Last week Interstate Commerce Commissioner Joseph Bartlett Eastman appeared as a witness before the House Committee to give specifications for starting the inquiry. His general complaint was that the I. C. C. could handle railroads but that it lacked any legal authority to deal with their financial alter egos which acquire rail stocks, scramble them together in defiance of the I. C. C. and, for all practical purposes, produce consolidations...
...Imperial Palace and saw a third of the city burning up and shaking down. Nero would have enjoyed the sight, not so Hirohito. But last week his Majesty ascended the same eminence and had proper cause for imperial joy. The whole area of the "Great Fire" (see map) which accompanied the quake of 1924 has been substantially if not elegantly rebuilt...
...course necessary to report minutely to the imperial ancestors at their shrines all about New Tokyo. With this duty in mind, the Emperor entered an open touring car and, followed by 29 carfuls of dignitaries, made the rounds of nearly all places key-numbered on the map...
...State of Utah the rock of ages has assumed strange forms. Geologically, as observed in such scenic reservations as Bryce Canyon National Park, The Cedar Breaks, Zion National Park (see map p. 27), the rock has been sculptured by erosion, forming unearthly peaks and terraces, ornate gorges, petrified and ghostly cities. Utah's religious rock of ages-its dominant church-is equally exotic. It is, as everyone knows, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or, more familiarly, the Mormon Church. Fully half of Utah's half-million souls are Mormons. The history and commercial development...
...Mother India." The pagan of so many Christlike virtues is not however a Christian. His followers have gone to the extraordinary length of setting up their country as their goddess. She, the actual land and map of India, is frequently represented today by paintings which show the goddess superimposed upon the map, her head always depicted among the Himalayan Mountains, her arms stretched out to embrace the east and west extremities of the map, her feet always close together resting upon Cape Comorin...