Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...routing tankers 11,254 nautical miles around the Cape of Good Hope from Persian Gulf ports to Western Europe. The trip would require more than 30 days, as against the 12-or 13-day journey through the Suez and Mediterranean (see map...
Lest the world forget a threat to peace that predates Suez-and probably will outlive it-shooting broke out again last week across Israel's borders. Late one morning Jordan National Guardsmen jumped 30 Israeli troops carrying out a map-reading exercise on the Hebron border and killed six. Next night an Israeli raiding party laid an ambush for probable reinforcements, then blew up a police fort on the Jordan side, killing twelve. Seven more Jordanians died when the Land Rovers in which they were hurrying to the scene drove into the Israeli ambush...
...quarter-century Arthur Judson has been the most powerful figure on the American musical scene. He headed the nation's largest artist-booking agency, now Columbia Artists Management, which relentlessly deployed its artists across the musical map of the U.S. At the same time, Judson was manager of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony . Society, with the deciding voice in the selection of conductors and soloists. For most of his 34-year tenure, controversy flickered over whether Judson should properly carry on both jobs. Last week the controversy came to an end when Judson, 75, resigned his post with...
...made by trucks and airlines. Last week the bull session grew into something more solid. The roads were talking merger, as equal partners in a single big line that would become the eighth biggest in the U.S., with 4,092 miles of railroad between New York and Chicago (see map), assets approaching $1 billion, and operating revenues of $300 million annually...
...Harvard and likes to think of himself as an amateur historian. His specialty was the Revolutionary War, but now he is a Civil War buff. On weekends at Gettysburg he has tramped over the battlefields near the President's farm, armed with a huge folding map and binoculars, sometimes studying with Dr. Frederick Tilberg, chief historian at Gettysburg, at other times with his 13-year-old daughter Debby and nine-year-old son Larry, who currently is concerned with the reasons behind J. E. B. Stuart's failure to get behind Meade's line on the third...