Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than a barrage of scurrilous speeches. And last week from Germany, United Press relayed just the kind of chit-chat to make such a John Lewis' Soviet Embassy picture thoroughly misunderstood : the Nazi Anti-Komintern was out with an article declaring that in a Moscow museum hangs a map of the future Soviet America, on which the name of Detroit is changed to Lewisgrad...
...opening stages the Japanese-Russian quarrel was based on flatly contradictory statements by Tokyo and Moscow about something alleged to have occurred on the murky Amur River, which for much of its length forms the frontier between Soviet Siberia and Japan's puppet empire of Manchukuo (see map). Ambassador Shigemitsu was instructed to say that Japanese and Manchukuoan soldiers, while peacefully swimming in the Amur, had been fired upon by a Soviet gunboat, soon sunk by the avenging fire of their shore batteries. To this Commissar Litvinoff replied that a Japanese-Manchukuoan gunboat had opened fire on a Soviet...
...World War." Madrid complained that the Rightist air force has been "doubled" by recent arrivals of Germans and Italians, declared that 15,000 more Italian soldiers had just been landed officered by members of the Italian General Staff. Meanwhile seven German warships left their anchorages in Portuguese waters (see map, p. 15), steaming past Gibraltar into the Mediterranean, where they were joined by the Admiral Graf Spee which arrived from Germany to replace the recently bombed Deutschland. London rumors had high naval officers in Berlin protesting to Der Führer that in sending his best ships into Mediterranean waters...
...rates are low. They will be performed by ambitious youngsters from little theatres, conscience-stricken celebrities temporarily on leave from the films, Broadway people with their futures before and behind them. New York and New England will as usual see the largest concentration of these plays and players (see map). A representative, but by no means comprehensive, summary of summer theatricals there and elsewhere...
...most people who see a brilliant fireball are so excited that their subsequent testimony Is likely to be highly inaccurate. He himself has learned to sight meteor paths with extraordinary precision. On one occasion he sighted a fireball, marked out its probable course by drawing a line on a map. This line passed through the very field in which the meteorite, a splendid 820-pounder, was located a month later...