Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interpretation of certain land laws. The strike lasted a day and then collapsed, but suddenly in Madrid, the word went out that the National Government was in serious danger. Reporters hurried to the office of Minister of the Interior Salazar Alonso, found him gravely dotting a huge map of Spain with colored pins: one color for Civil Guards, other colors for police reserves, airplane squadrons, cavalry, infantry, artillery. Pausing in his handiwork he told them a startling story. In Northern Asturias police had raided a secret cache of arms and discovered a plot to overthrow the Republic. The arms came...
...Lever Brothers Ltd. are $175.000,000 larger than the assets of P. & G. and Colgate combined. Its profits last year footed up to £6,200,000?about $31,000,000. Lever's properties are so far flung that at the annual meeting last April the chairman had a map of the world on the wall behind him with Lever plants ?and plantations?picked out with tiny colored electric bulbs. When the chairman pushed one button, green lights showed the extent of Lever interests at the death of Lord Leverhulme. Red lights revealed subsequent additions. Finally all were flashed...
...resigned and was leaving Washington for good. Thirteen years ago, after an apprenticeship in Chicago's Hull House, Grace Abbott was picked by President Harding to succeed the late great Julia Lathrop as the second chief of the Children's Bureau. She hung a big, red-splotched map of U. S. infant mortality in her office, and stayed there until last June. How much she had accomplished in that time her 80 excited employes were ready last week to show her as soon as dinner was done...
Even trained observers had difficulty in determining their distance from the particle, but that distance can be readily ascertained by plotting on a map the compass directions, corrected for true north, observatory officials point out. The intersections of the majority of of these lines indicate the approximate positions of the starting and vanishing points...
...launching of a merchant vessel. For this week's historic occasion they will not only be present, but Queen Mary herself will break a magnum of champagne across the monster's bow at the christening. Longer (1,018 ft.) than the Clyde is wide (see map), No. 534 will slide stern-first into the river, with tons of drag-chains coiled about her sides to check her momentum. The splash when she hits the water was expected to send eight-foot waves surging over an orchard on the opposite bank. To accommodate her stern, the River Cart...