Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against the Germans. Says Miko lajczyk: "I want a strong and friendly Russia for the same reason." But the only signs of compromise had come from the Poles. Moscow held rigidly as ever to its demands, underscoring them again this week with the declaration that the "Curzon Line" (see map), well inside pre-1939 Poland, must be the basis of settlement...
...Casimir the Great was the first Pole to encompass a large block of non-Poles (Ruthenians) in his domains. His great-niece, Jadwiga, married Jagiello of Lithuania in 1386. The union of the two kingdoms prospered for almost exactly 300 years; the tide did not turn until 1667 (see map). Said Ivan III of Muscovy, when Poland's expansion was in full flower: between Russians and Poles, there can never be permanent peace. Only truces...
...President Bill Jeffers. Everybody shook hands. Said Jeffers: "Anything you want, just let us know." A U.P. man found them desk space down the hall. They moved in with an armful of mimeographed orders. As an afterthought, Jeffers' assistant provided the officers with an advertising folder, containing a map of the Union Pacific's rail network for them to study...
Twin Perils. In the north, Armenian General Ivan Bagramian was hacking away methodically at the Vitebsk-Mogilev line (see map, p, 27). The great German stronghold of Vitebsk was engulfed. Orsha was in danger. And at any hour, the four huge Red Armies idling in the north might roll west, crush the thinly spread forces of Field Marshals von Kluge" and von Küchler, pour into old Poland, the Baltic States...
...rolling country near Jackson, Miss., 1,500 German prisoners of war were busy with pick & shovel. They heaped big mounds of earth, dug trenches and excavations that looked like foxholes. They were building perhaps the biggest topographical map ever made. When finished, it will be a mile-long concrete model of the Mississippi Valley, complete with tributaries, hills and mountains, stretching from Pittsburgh to Denver, from Minneapolis to New Orleans. Object: a laboratory to study flood control...