Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...microwave set uses radio waves so tiny that they put the finger on raindrops and dampish clouds. A system of such sets could give a precise, continuous map of the weather over the whole U.S., showing airplanes how to dodge dangerous storm clouds...
...from the Yucatan Peninsula to the Pan American Highway running through Mexico, Williams will operate a ferry between Cuba and Puerto Morelos. U.S. motorists from the eastern seaboard who want to go to Mexico City would save 800 miles of driving by taking the Cuba-Mexico auto ferry (see map...
General Hsiao did not rise as the enemy entered. In the background innumerable cups of tea were poured as the terms were outlined. When the enemy handed over a map showing the disposition of his 1,000,000 troops in China, General Hsiao's aides broke their imperturbability, crowded for a jubilant look...
...prospect of peace was as diverse as the provinces of China (see map). Noodle-eating Northerners, the tall, rugged people of the Yellow River region, were going back to their cool villages and towns. In Peiping they would eat onions again, fondle walnuts in their palms, see the Temple of Heaven and the old lacquered palaces, bring their songbirds to street corners in the afternoons...
...from the Van Sweringens was: 1) the profit-fat Chesapeake & Ohio Railway; 2) through the Alleghany Corp., the controlling interest in three other roads which sprawl across the U.S. heartland-the New York, Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate), the Pere Marquette, and the Wheeling and Lake Erie (see map). Last week, in Cleveland's Terminal Tower, the C & O's board of directors voted to merge all four railroads, make them one operating company...