Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chapin Jr., who started his career as an architect and still has the architect's gift of helping people to visualize a plan. On Chapin's staff are James Cutter, TIME'S specialist in chart-making, and Polly Sell, a fabric designer turned cartographer. The map department also has its own researchers-Margaret Quimby and "Murph" Williamson, who were picked on the recommendation of geography-conscious Clark University...
Among the department's 1,500 reference maps, charts and photographs are some from the U.S. Hydrographic Office that show Truk and Guadalcanal in such detail that coral reefs and buildings as small as Chapin's office are visible-and a set of very detailed Admiralty charts of the French, Spanish and Italian coasts that Chapin dug up in anticipation of an Allied invasion practically anywhere. This week's TIME map of Tunisia was based on the French automobile blue book and the very hard-to-come-by Atlas des Colonies Francaises...
...keep ahead of the news Chapin and his associates have built up a "bank" chock full of maps they have drawn to illustrate events that might erupt into the headlines-maps they could fill in and finish at a few minutes' notice. For example, three years ago they prepared a basic map of the invasion of Britain, which needs only the direction arrows and the names of the beachhead battlefields to be ready for the plate-maker. I hope (pretty confidently) that we shall never have a chance to use this...
...illustrate the degree of unreadiness in the Pacific last December, Admiral King strode to a map in his Washington office and pointed to a position conveniently near but safely out of the combat zones. At this logical point he had to establish a fleet-fueling base after the fighting began ("one of the first things I caused to be done...
...Washington last December, but before he publicly took command, the Pacific Fleet got its fundamental orders: "Hold the Hawaiian Islands area on the Midway line at all costs," and "Hold the communications line to the southwest Pacific on the Samoa-Fiji line and extend it to New Caledonia" (see map, p. 32). Said Admiral King last week...