Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Having the initiative was their fundamental advantage and General Gam elin moved cautiously to retain it. The sector he chose for his first move against Germany's "impregnable" Westwall (or Limes Line*) was the 100-mi, stretch from Lauterbourg on the Rhine, northwest to the Moselle River (see map). Here the German border and the Westwall guarding it depart from the Rhine, to run across hilly vineyard and forest country. To break through the Wall here does not involve the added difficulty of crossing the Rhine. And neutral Luxembourg guards the French left flank. Last week the lower reaches...
...Kielce to Cracow, and after that to the angle between the Bug and Vistula Rivers in the north and the Industrial Triangle (Cracow to Lublin to Lwow) in the south, was the strategy approved for Marshal Smigly-Rydz by his Allied military advisers (see map, p. 16). He need endanger only 15 Polish divisions by this plan, holding 45 in reserve to smite the Germans after their supply lines and communications were extended. His own defense line would be less than 500 miles long instead of more than 1,000 miles. Even the Germans estimated it would take them...
...already registered at the U. S. copyright office) was suggested last week by Manhattan Press-agent Joseph P. Annin, a Wartime aerial reconnaissance officer. Annin's idea, which he got while traveling cross-country in an airliner, is to sell radio advertisers on the idea of distributing war maps and sets of colored pins to the audience, hiring military experts to digest the news of the day, analyze the tactics, then devoting five sponsored minutes each evening on the air telling map-in-lap listeners where and why to shift their pins...
...understanding Poland, says Author Buell, is its peculiar domestic and external problems. They are numerous and acute. Poland has 1) an unfortunate place on the map, between two countries which have more than once collaborated in partitioning it; 2) no natural frontiers; 3) desperate agrarian problems, aggravated by lack of markets and a surplus population; 4) explosive minorities (approximately 3,300,000 Jews, 750,000 Germans, 1,500,000 White Russians, 5,000,000 Ukrainians in a population of 34,500,000) ; 5) precarious political conflicts, kept in check only by the Poles' fervent nationalism. Thus traditional suspicions...
...prayer. Then he went upstairs, knelt by the bed where his first wife, Empress Augusta-Victoria had died 18 years before, and prayed again, alone. After that the old man seemed to take a new lease on life. Downstairs, in the great hall, he spread before him a map of Poland and, as once again he heard the boom of cannon on the Western front, he began sticking little colored pins along the battlefronts...