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Accompanying the pictures is a map based on data compiled by the Southern Association of Science and Industry, which has just finished the first comprehensive survey ever made of Southern industry. The symbols on the map denote areas in which there are at least three $1,000,000 manufacturing plants or one $10,000,000 plant, the sizes of the symbols indicating the relative value of each area's plants. In addition to the major industries shown on this eleven-state map, the South is dotted with important food processing plants; seafood canning is big business in New Orleans...
Elsewhere, in small local factories and big metropolitan plants (many of them outside the scope of TIME'S map), such traditional Southern agricultural products as cotton, rice, tobacco and peanuts play a leading role in the new industrial economy. Similarly responsible for much of the recent manufacturing expansion (and directly related to the industrial areas on the map) are the South's natural-resource riches: iron ore and coal in Alabama and Kentucky, natural gas and oil along the Gulf Coast, Georgia's and South Carolina's clay, North Carolina's mica and feldspar, Louisiana...
...wintry waning moonlight, the skipper of the heavy cruiser Los Angeles, Captain Robert N. McFarlane, brought his ship about and within range parallel to the coast. From the naval post ashore came the map coordinates of the Red troops. In Lieut, Donald A. Marksheffel's main battery plotting room, seamen worked out range and meteorological data, fed it into a boxlike mechanical computer. The No. 3 gun turret swung around toward the target, its 8-in. muzzles rising slowly. Marksheffel dropped a hand, and a seaman pressed a warning buzzer three times with his left hand. With his right...
...Krokodil" conception of geography at Harvard consists of a group of men standing around while a general sticks maps marked "US" into a map of the world. "Law" depiets a lynching, while in "Literature," a group of students are shown throwing books by Goethe, Dreiser, Tolstoy, and Howard Fast into a fire...
...duty to "Christianize" and civilize a nation that had been devoutly Catholic for 200 years before the U.S. was born. "And the next morning I sent for the Chief Engineer of the War Department-our mapmaker-and I told him to put the Philippines on the map...