Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tumen flows into the sea lies Changkufeng Hill, a prominence which has unusual military importance since to the east it commands Posieta Bay which is of naval importance to Russia. To the south-west it commands the coast in the vicinity of Rashin, a Japanese naval base (see map...
...adjoining map shows how (Texas excluded) the South's six biggest industrial centres have grown since 1914. That Louisville grew most is due partly to tobacco, partly to liquor, and partly to the fact that, lying on the Ohio, it does not suffer from the freight-rate disparities which Governors of other Southern States last week were protesting...
...addition to the South's three great natural resources - cotton, coal, iron - shown in map, are its forests, its cheap labor, found everywhere. Extent of forests is implied by the pulp mills. Small figures under the symbols for pulp and textile mills represent the number of important mills in each State. Those under the cigarets equal total production in 1936 (latest figure...
...student from the great world beyond the Alps. Their programs were simple and unimportant. In 1918. however, a group of Viennese musicians, headed by Composer Richard Strauss, Conductor Franz Schalk, Stage Director Max Reinhardt and Playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal. decided to give Salzburg a bigger place on the musical map. Two years later the first big Salzburg Festival was given, with a gala outdoor performance of von Hofmannsthal's Jedermann (Everyman) as its principal drawing card...
...neighboring Roosevelt Field in a 1929 Curtiss-Robin monoplane with an old Wright J-6 motor that could turn up only 95 miles an hour. By modern standards the ship was a crate, but in it, with nothing to fly by but a compass, a bit of a map and the beam in his eye, 31-year-old Douglas P. Corrigan of Los Angeles had flown the 2,700 miles to New York nonstop. A vacation trip, he said, and a fairly pleasant one, from his job at the Northrop Corp. aircraft works at Inglewood, Calif...