Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S first Christmas scene appeared on the Dec. 26, 1938 cover, and similar covers have since run on four other Christmas issues. During the war and early postwar years, maps appeared several times on TIME'S covers. With the liberation of Paris, a symbolic map of that city was on the cover (Sept. 4, 1944), and the story began: "The news that made the whole free world catch its breath last week was the news that Paris was free . . . Paris is the city of all free mankind, and its liberation . . . was one of the great events...
...readily, some critics think. With more men than Giap, with an abundance of U.S. equipment, with an overwhelming superiority in guns and planes, the French, instead of ranging all over the map as Giap is doing, seem to be handicapped by the bunker-or Maginot-mentality. In the high command there is a conflict of personalities: two four-star generals, Linares and Salan, competing for military advantage. What France badly needs is another De Lattre, one who knows'how to use the material at hand...
Shock Troops. Not until he had about 400,000 acres under lease did Jacobsen send in his teams of geologists and geophysicists to map the surface and underground strata. By such tricks as drilling shallow holes and setting off dynamite in them, the geophysicists could time the shock waves through the ground, thus guess at the type of rock, shale or sand strata through which the waves were passing. For four years the teams mapped the area. Then the results were studied for months by Amerada's Dr. Benjamin B. Weatherby, one of the top geophysicists of the industry...
What Dr. Weatherby and staff were looking for was the peak of the underground dome. When this area was plotted on an ordinary contour map, it was time for Jacobsen & Co. to weigh all the geologic and other factors and make the final decision to drill. The big work was preparing the maps and locating the possible oil-bearing area; picking the spot to drill was easy. Says Jacobsen: "Any office boy at Amerada could have done that because you drill in the peak of the dome. As long as you stay in that area you could pick your spot...
Thus far, however, the real rush has been to the Oil Bureau's map-lined Lima headquarters. There last week Director Noriega and his assistants pored over the rival claims, many of which overlap. Noriega hopes that his bureau can start handing out decisions by July. Then the rush to tap the new fields will really begin...