Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Start Something! Not since 1914 has there been such a massing of troops as ringed Austria last week (see map). Italy had 75,000 men at the frontier ready to move in an hour. Due north in Bavaria was the famed Austrian Legion of approximately 30,000 exiled Nazis ready to march back into Austria with weapons from German arsenals whenever Adolf Hitler should nod nis head. Along the Czechoslovak frontier approximately 35,000 men, with the heaviest siege guns in Central Europe, were ready for the first nation that started something. Viennese knew that the Czech frontier is only...
...swirled round the thrones, and floated the governments of the people into the seats of the mighty. In Russia, Austria, Germany, "the king" and "the empire" became frail words which foolish men scrawled up on walls or sidewalks late at night. Handsome gentlemen whose families had sketched the map of Europe for centuries moved off into quiet watering places to await, beneath the trees, a call which has not come...
...headed by Alabama's Black found that U. S. shipping men bought vessels for almost nothing from the Government and then collected fat fees for carrying almost no mail, that U. S. airline executives made big speculative profits while small concerns were being frozen off the air mail map. But not until last week did Senator Black and his committee strike pay dirt that, in newspaper headlines, looked very dirty...
...From witnesses called during the previous three weeks Senator Black had learned that in May 1930 there had been a meeting of big air line operators in the Post Office Department at which Mr. MacCracken presided. The meeting's purpose was to carve up the U. S. air map and apportion mail routes and subsidies. Afterward President Hoover's Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown had given them exactly what they wanted...
...weather map of business activity last week there was a high pressure area over Detroit. For the first time in five years U. S. motormakers could not fill their orders. Henry Ford had already opened two additional assembly plants. Chrysler plants, slow to get new streamlined cars into production, were last week operating with 21,000 more workers than last year. Hudson had 24,000 orders on hand and a working staff double its January average. Nash estimated that it would deliver more cars in the first quarter of this year than in all of last. Blamed in part...