Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some vast and somber drama was assembling before curtain time. Scores of miners' wives seated themselves numbly on benches in the mine washroom. Rescue crews from towns all around the coal fields-from Belleville, Herrin, Du Quoin, Eldorado, West Frankfort-stood in their hard-toed shoes studying a map of No. 5. Near them were reporters, photographers, state troopers, Red Cross workers, and the drivers of the hearses parked outside...
...last and most serious blank space on the meteorologist's map is Antarctica, whose violent winds probably affect the whole world. Not until this gap is filled can the meteorologists trace every major weather condition to its birthplace...
...plays a foreign baroness of some kind, though she seems to lose her accent after the first reel. Action, consisting mainly of knife-throwings and wisecracks, moves from California mansion to insane asylum to Washington hotel to San Quentin Prison, as the two principals frantically pursue a little map locating a fabulous deposit of uranium ore, a substance which seems to have supplanted buried treasure in the cinema palaces these days...
...stations will be located somewhere in the frozen splash of islands north and west of Arctic Bay (see map). Only two of them have been pinpointed yet. The headquarters station will be at Winter Harbor on Melville Island and will be in operation by next August. The other will be still further north-700 miles from the North Pole-at Ellesmere Island's Eureka Sound. It will be set up probably in April. Exploratory parties will recommend sites for the other seven stations later...
...Push from Behind. If the pressure keeps falling, the pilot can tell that he is approaching a low-pressure area. Heading towards Europe, he would veer south (as on the map) to pick up a tail wind. Flying west, he would veer north, and get a similar boost. Radioed reports from ships, from shore or from other planes help him figure out the situation. Frequently a properly plotted pressure course, though covering a longer sea distance, saves more, than an hour on a transatlantic flight. It also saves fuel and money-a modern, four-engined airplane costs...