Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reading your interesting account of Durham's bull, I was reminded of a characteristic of the animal to which you did not point. You will recognize that on the bull's side appears a more or less perfect map...
...story as it reached me is that Durham & Co. imported this animal at a great cost from the Pampas, after search for a bull on whose side was a "perfect map of the United States...
...bull, it is said, died on the Durham & Co. lot soon after importation. But not before artists had copied his "map" to paste on the nation's billboards...
American Tobacco Co. recalls no actual model for Bull Durham. The U. S. map on his side was purely accidental. When noticed it was touched up to be more apparent...
...Taking off overweight for nearly every flight because she was invariably loaded down with extra equipment for all manner of experiments, notably: first launching of a glider from an airship; first hook-on of an airplane in flight; first radio reception of map facsimiles in flight; first test of an echo altimeter; first "narrowcasting" of voice on a light beam; tests of scores of navigation devices...