Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team of astronomers from Indiana University set out to find exactly where that was on the map. Shooting the sun with sextants, like mariners determining a ship's position, they discovered that the center had moved across the Indiana line at last to a spot near Olney (pop. 8,541), the county seat of Richland County...
Colonel Adams commands the U.S. 2nd Division's 23rd Regiment, which was finally identified last week, by permission of Eighth Army censors, as the outfit spearheading the fight for Heartbreak Ridge. This strategic, four-mile-long mountain north of Yanggu (see map) overlooks an important North Korean supply and assembly base to the north. The ridge, said the 2nd Division's commander, was "like a dagger pointing to their heart." The Eighth Army wanted it desperately- and the Reds were just as desperately determined to prevent its capture by U.N. forces...
Raisz is shown at his desk, working on a map of Arabia for which he has an Army contract. He estimates the map will not be complete until early next year...
Colonel Bishop likes his history translated into living beings and moving forces, an objective TIME has always had. His attitude is accepted readily by his students, one of whom remarked about the recent map of Russian slave labor camps: "There's nothing especially new about that for the Russians, is there? Couldn't the map have stood for the banishment camps and Siberian prisons the Czars kept for the disposal of their political opponents? The Bolshies are doing what Russians in power have been doing for generations...
...Advance. A company ready to invest in Alberta oil can lease the rights on almost any amount of land by paying an advance yearly rent of $1 an acre and signing an agreement to go ahead with immediate exploration. When a company strikes oil, it has three months to map out its entire lease in alternate blocks, usually in checkerboard pattern. The company keeps half the blocks, and pays land rent to the farm owners (up to $1,500 a well), plus a government royalty averaging 14% on all oil produced. The alternate blocks of the checkerboard revert...