Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Central Executive Committee of Soviet Russia pointed last week to another remote spot on the map and invited Jews to move in to form an autonomous Jewish national province. The spot was Biro-Bidjan in farthest Siberia, a wild and fertile land of mountains and rivers, drained by the great Amur and separated only by that river from Manchukuo on the south and west...
Startling error of omission in your airmail map (TIME, April 23, p. 24) is "the "Before Cancellation and After" route of American Airways from Buffalo, across Canadian soil, through Detroit and into Chicago. Cartographer and reporter both failed to delineate accurately any but the Newark-Buffalo portion of Mr. Cord's Newark-Chicago ''Valley Route." . . . The route is too important to omit. With its inauguration May 3, 1933, Mr. Cord's American Airways became the first transportation company to put geographically off-line Detroit on a direct New York-Chicago trunk line. How important this...
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...addition to the contracts already awarded, Mr. Farley last week asked for bids on ten new routes, as well as on two of those rejected, to be opened late this month. Thus the new airmail map, as he contemplates it, will embrace some 28,500 mi., which is 3,300 mi. more than was routed before cancellation. Because of curtailed schedules, however, there will actually be 19,000 fewer miles flown daily under the new system than under...
...sheriff's car, taking a negro murderer named Herbert Youngblood with him. (At Port Huron, Mich. Fugitive Youngblood fatally wounded a sheriff before he himself was killed.) From Crown Point in seven weeks Dillinger's bullet-strewn trail wound and rewound through half a dozen states (see map). He arrived in St. Paul with a shoulder wound, got a city health officer to redress it. Few days later three Federal agents trapped him in a St. Paul apartment with his sweetheart, Evelyn Frechette. Whipping out a machine gun, he sprayed his way to freedom but not before...