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...addition to the ship, air, rail and truck routes the map shows for the materials needed for each issue, some paper is hauled by barge. TIME paper is transported down the Willamette River to Portland, transferred to an ocean-going steamer that moves through the Panama Canal, and finally hauled by barge up the Mississippi River to Chicago. TIME Inc. also owns a barge which carries paper from Bucksport. Me. for use in its other publications. This barge travels across inland waterways and up the Great Lakes to Chicago during the summer months, and coastwise to Philadelphia when the lakes...
...heard of Comanche, Okla. (pop. 1,500), a comatose little cotton town on U.S. Highway 81, half an hour's drive from the Texas border. But a fortnight ago, Comanche's undertaker, a chubby, balding go-getter named Glen Boydstun, decided to put the town on the map. His inspiration: a news item announcing that droop-eyed Bill Cook, cold-blooded killer of six, was to be executed (TIME, Dec. 22) in the gas chamber at California's San Quentin prison...
...Results Unknown." Every morning at 8 o'clock, at every U.S. command post in Korea, commanders gather with their staffs for their daily briefing on the infantry war. Before a lighted map of the corps, divisional or regimental sector in question, a G-2 officer reduces the cold, the tensions and the tragedy of the night just gone to dry brevities which, more often than not, end in the phrase "with results unknown...
...Amazonian jungles and Chaco plains. With the aid of a $26 million U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, Bolivia hopes to finish a highway linking the mountain cities with Santa Cruz, capital of the plains, by late 1953. Brazil and Argentina are busy building railroads across the Chaco (see map) to open the area to the Atlantic. Bolivian nationalists, sponsors of a "March to the East," talk paradoxically of luring foreign capital to develop the long-neglected oil of the Chaco...
...Indians that land reform is next, and a restlessness has already been noted on the altiplano. If Paz shoots the nationalist wad and fails, the door to Marxist revolution may be blown wide open. And if the Reds sneak in, Bolivia will indeed be back on the map of the world's trouble spots...