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...said the researcher, "it looks like a pan of worms." That was at an early stage of the project that produced the BUSINESS section's map of the million miles of pipelines that lie like a set of ribs under the surface of the U.S. From the idea, through the pan-of-worms stage, to the printed page this week, the map was three months in production...
Once all the data had been gathered, the big problem for Cartographer R. M. Chapin Jr. and his staff was to get it all on a two-page map and still make it clearly readable. The rather large aim was to differentiate among natural-gas, crude-oil and product pipelines, to show oilfield areas and natural-gas fields, and to rank refinery areas by size. Besides high cartographic skill, all this called for a special printing process. For the U.S. editions, the map was printed in eight colors-yellow, magenta, green, grey, gold, pink, blue and black. To get sharper...
...know, no one-not even in the industry-has produced such a map of the U.S. pipeline network. And, considering the time, skill, care and cost involved, we're not surprised...
...natural gas that flow through this network (see map, over leaf) eventually turn turbines, heat buildings, power automobiles, and cook the food of the U.S. The whole process has produced a thriving pipeline industry...
Tanganzanziyikabar? Tangibar? Instead, the newlyweds settled for the grandly forgettable title of United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, or URTZ, as it soon became known to U.S. African hands. Last week, to the delight of map-makers and nation-namers the world over, the United Republic's President, Julius Nyerere, announced on second thought that the amalgamated nation's official name will be Tanzania...