Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the first chill winds of fall: > OPAdministrator Leon Henderson's statisticians pored over 43 years of Weather Bureau figures. They came up with an allegedly scientific map zoning 30 States according to climate for fuel-oil rationing...
...professor picked up a pointer, waved it at a world that most of his audience had never seen before. The center of his new map was the North Pole. Tracing future air routes with his pointer, the professor proceeded to teach topsy-turvy geography: Tokyo is nearer to Minneapolis than to San Diego. Chicago is closer to Siberia than to South America...
...since been taught by journalistic mapmakers, notably FORTUNE'S. Last week the lecturer was Columbia University's Professor Ben D. Wood, head of the Government's program to air-condition youngsters. Dr. Wood, touring the nation to explain the new geography to schoolteachers, unveiled his new map (the "air age" projection. supplanting Mercator's) before a group of teachers and principals in Chicago. It will be the official text for geography lessons in schools throughout the land this term...
...many islands in the vast, inky blue expanse of the Pacific are occupied by U.S. forces is a military secret. Some islands get into the news from time to time. Many others are just map specks in the southern and middle Pacific. They may become news sometime; they may never be heard of until the war is over...
Second Circle. The story begins with the flight of seven political prisoners from the Westhofen Concentration Camp. Twenty minutes after the break, the camp lieutenant spread out his map, "stuck the point of his compass into the red dot marked CAMP WESTHOFEN and drew three concentric circles." Somewhere between the red dot and the second circle the fugitives must be. From this circumference bloodhounds padded out into the foggy evening, the camp sirens screamed incessantly, police began the precise combing of every tree and tussock...