Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high valleys and the king's harem more than pays for itself, by sewing uniforms for the royal army. Harlan B. Clark (born 33 years ago in Brookfield, Ohio) was in the jeep. He and the jeep together meant that no land-not even Yemen (see map) -could henceforth be isolated from...
...plan was as comprehensive as the Navy could make it. If it was adopted, the Pacific would become a filigree of 22 bases, stretching from Hawaii to the China Seas, from the barren Aleutians to paradisiac Samoa. Pearl Harbor would continue to dominate the military map. But the U.S. armored highway across the Pacific, which once faded out a thousand miles beyond Pearl, would henceforth extend to Guam and Saipan...
...Million Cash. Last fortnight the Quebec Government gave Hollinger an exclusive 20-year concession to explore and develop 3,900 square miles of Ungava directly across the border from its Labrador concession (see map). Hollinger and a U.S. associate, the iron mining firm of M. A. Hanna, agreed to spend upward of $300 million...
...MAP was only part of the trouble. The primary cause was production. Cotton fabric manufacture was running some three billion yards behind 1942 levels, will this year be about five billion short of demand. Result: shirt production is about 35 to 40% below 1941 levels, demand about 200% (32,100,000 dozen shirts) above. Similarly, demand for men's suits this year is put at 40,000,000. Estimated 1946 production: 30,000,000 at most...
...Gervais' sister Cresside, a wild sprig who turns into a solid prop of the proprieties. There are, in fact, so many d'Alverys and other characters that some readers may wish that Novelist Keyes had supplied a dynastic chart and dramatis personae as meticulous as her map of Belle Heloise...