Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Axis broadcasters reported, with a great air of knowledge, that U.S. combat forces were massing in western Africa (see map): in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, Cameroon. If so, then the U.S., for all military purposes, had taken over the great coastal belt embracing the Allied ports of Freetown, Takoradi, Lagos and Accra, feeding the new air and surface supply routes to Egypt, the rest of the Middle East and Russia. Furthermore, if the Axis was right, U.S. forces were moving into positions from which they could attack Dakar...
...great military barriers: the jungles of the Congo, which isolate British South Africa from most of the continent, and the Sahara desert, which divides the Mediterranean littoral (now mostly Vichy-and Axis-held) from the more habitable portion of the tropics lying north of the Congo (see map). By cleaning out Dakar, Timbuktu and other small holdings, the United Nations would have this central belt within their grasp...
...sense and less paper work and red tape than in most armies. There is also more of a chance for men to make suggestions. In Tabriz I interviewed 30-year-old Colonel Boris Ruhjov. He did not have a paper on his desk, only a field telephone and a map. He had no gestures, no habits to exhibit...
...history of this heavy-browed tycoon and his United Mine Workers is as dramatic as it is paradoxical. Not ten years ago, Lewis put Labor on the map. It was he who conceived the ideal of industrial organization, and led his courageous group of miners from the musty fold of the A F of L. It was he who built up the ranks during the depression years, and made them a strong political factor in the elections of 1932 and 1936. Strongfisted and crusading, John L. was the biggest frog in a growing pond of industrial unionism up until...
...students to do defense duty with the Boston Information Center, about 300 Harvard men will be signed up tonight at 7 o'clock in Emerson Hall for work in a secret airplane report center. Operating in shifts, they will receive information from airplane spotters and filter stations, plot and map reports, and relay the information to military authorities...