Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grown, and a measure of the growth is shown in the size of fledgling TIME'S first print order: a modest 25,000. This week Williams started a press run of 250,000 copies of TIME to be distributed to New England and eastern New York alone (see map). Williams' contribution, ten times the number of TIME'S first total run, is still only one-tenth of the total 2,500,000 copies of TIME printed every Monday in the five U.S. plants. (Chicago and the three foreign plants print 555,000 copies of TIME...
...Explorer VI's 1/161n. aluminum skin shrouds the most intricate and talented collection of scientific instruments yet sent into space -all in a 29-in. by 26-in. ball that moves through its complete orbit once every twelve hours. One hoped-for result is the first relatively detailed map of the Van Allen belts, which present a formidable barrier to interplanetary flight. Previous earth satellites have not gone high enough to examine the enormous breadth of the Van Allen radiation. Pioneer IV obtained valuable information, but made only one trip through the belts before falling into orbit around...
...gathers impressions of the cloud layers over the earth. An electronic counter digests the mirror's impressions and turns them into radio signals, which eventually become crude photographs of the earth's weather patterns. Two magnetometers watch the earth's magnetic field, may help map the field and explain its curious storms and their effect on earth communications...
...possible. Though he is the boss of National Homes Corp., the world's biggest maker of prefabricated houses, Jim Price felt that not even National was big enough for what lay ahead. That week he walked into the company's Lafayette, Ind. executive offices, pointed to a map and said: "I want a plant here, here and here...
...Arch Napier trekked through New Mexico's Carson National Forest. In Washington, Bureau Chief John L. Steele mopped his brow, thought warmly of his colleagues in the cool forests, and with Chief Forester Richard E. McArdle summed up the purpose of McArdle's far-reaching domain (see map). It's the same as it was when Teddy Roosevelt created the forest service in 1905: "For the greatest good of the greatest number in the long...