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Word: surveying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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There followed three years of service with the 3rd Regiment of the Tirailleurs Algériens, because he wanted to see some rough service, and three years with the Army's Geographical Service, because he liked to paint landscapes in water color, survey and map. In 1899 he was admitted to the War College, where he studied tactics under Lieut. Colonel, later Marshal Foch, who particularly noticed his qualities. He graduated in 1902 with the commendation of "très bien...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Good Grey General | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

This answer to the challenge of Pan American's 41-ton Clippers (which last week completed in 24 hours their thirtieth crossing of the Atlantic) had cost Imperial many a costly survey flight, costlier technical trials & errors. The chief problem had been to provide for profitable payloads. Since Imperial's Empire flying boats could not lift half the Clippers' payload from the water, they had resorted to getting as much of a load as possible in the air, then gassing up for the long ocean flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Caribou | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...speed and payload had lagged behind the Clippers', Britain could console herself that no nation could dispute her No. 2 rank in the North Atlantic. Air France, which also has a treaty right to land transatlantic mail and passengers in the U. S., is still in the survey stage. When Imperial shakes down, the Caribou and her sistership Cabot will carry mail, no passengers, each week between the U. S. and Britain. Pan American once carried 27 passengers, 791 lb. of mail to Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Caribou | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Because the freedom, responsibilities and mores of the U. S. Press are today a public issue, TIME Inc. last year undertook a nationwide survey of the Press, using its own reporters and the machinery of the FORTUNE polls. In its August issue, out this week, FORTUNE prints the results of that survey. They constitute, for the first time in the long history of the free-press debate, a comprehensive body of fact, showing what the people think of the Press. Notable findings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The People & the Papers | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...Whitehall Letter concentrates on interpreting foreign news, has good sources of information, is pretty accurate. Published anonymously, the snooty Whitehall Letter insists that its subscribers be properly introduced. The Far East Survey is published fortnightly by a onetime editor of Kobe's Japan Chronicle, A. Morgan Young, purports to give Britishers the inside dope on what goes on in China and Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dear German Reader | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

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