Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brigadier General Thomas S. Power, leader of the wing flying from Guam, stayed over the target 90 minutes, making red crosses on a map to show blocks where fires broke out. He wore his red crayon down. A favorable wind spread the flames to cover 15 square miles...
...Provide each airport with a glass map on which lights will automatically show the position of every plane in the air in its area...
...Germans' foothold on the Maas River was torn violently loose. They scuttled out of the Maas strongholds of Venlo and Roermond. When the Ninth and the Canadian First Army (which includes some English, Scottish and Welsh units) joined forces near Geldern (see map), the pocket was empty except for a few stragglers. Berlin said that the British Second Army had moved forward into the vacuum...
...unprecedented, probably exaggerated and almost masochistic vein: "Allied air raids on Dresden . . . caused the greatest destruction a big urban area has ever suffered. . . . Catastrophe without parallel. Not a single . . . building remains intact or even capable of reconstruction. The town area is devoid of human life . . . wiped from the map of Europe...
Young Ted, who went to work for Barnsdall after graduating from St. Paul's School, set out in 1935 with his own wildcatting and drilling company, Falcon Seaboard Drilling Co. Later, he organized Aero Exploration Co. to map oil lands as one of his jobs, traced the route of Big Inch from Texas to New Jersey. But Aero, which made aircraft surveys, gave him a hankering for the aviation business...