That map contradicts my Balfour update that had the US mainly gaining mastery over Mexico (puppet regime) from WW1.
The US was already stated to have Baja.
Gustave Whitehead (1874-1935) - German-American aviation pioneer who made the first verified powered heavier-than-air flight in history in 1901, creating the first successful aerodrome. Born Gustaf Albin Weisskopf in Leuterhausen, Bavaria, he was interested in flight from an early age, experimenting with kites and studying how birds flew. He trained as a mechanic and went to Hamburg as a boy after his parents died, where he was forced to join a sailing crew, learning more about wind and birds. In 1893 he arrived in the United States and Anglicized his name. In 1897 he built two gliders for the Aeronautical Club of Boston, which were mildly successful, and he was hired by a toy company in New York to build kites and model gliders. In 1900 he moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut to get a job at a factory.
It was while living in Bridgeport that on August 14 1901, Whitehead flew his
Whitehead No.21 in nearby Fairfield. Four days later the Bridgeport Herald reported the story, which soon spread to papers around the northeast. At the end of the month, a photographer from the Boston Globe arrived, and on September 1 1901, Whitehead flew the No.21 again, which was verified by the photographer, and the Globe published the story two days later. Whitehead became known worldwide, and in 1905 he founded the Whitehead Company in Brigeport to capitalize on his aerodromes, which soon established a partnership with German investors to found Weisskopf GmbH in Bremen.
Both the American and German firms played a huge role in aviation development in their respective countries; Whitehead Co. was one of the largest aerodrome makers in the US and a major supplier of the Army Air Corps and later the independent United States Air Corp before merging with American Rocket and Curtiss-Fairchild in 1964 to form General Aerospace (Still headquartered in Southwest Connecticut; specifically, in Fairfield, where Whitehead made his first flight) while Weisskopf GmbH merged with Rumpler in 1925 and purchased the ailing Zeppelin GmbH in 1948, becoming RWZ GmbH, Germany's largest aerospace concern.
Whitehead died of a heart attack in 1935, at the age of 61.
George Lucas (1944-) - American automotive executive and engineer who is currently CEO and Chairman of General Motors, the world's largest automaker. Born and raised in Modesto, California, he was interested in cars from a young age, and aspired to be a race car driver, but a minor crash in 1962 just before his high school graduation dampened his enthusiasm for racing. Instead he attended Modesto Junior College, studying mechanics and engineering and graduated from San Jose State University in 1967, hoping to become an automotive engineer. He joined the United States Air Corps as an officer after graduation and was deployed to La Mancha during the Spanish War against Franco-Italian supported communist North Spain, where he operated anti-air missiles, but fell ill and was discharged the next year after it was found he had diabetes.
After being discharged, Lucas returned to the US and settled in Detroit, where he was hired by Hudson Group, the third largest American automaker behind GM and Ford, as an engineer in 1969, attending night classes at the Ross School of Business as well. He was laid off by Hudson in 1976, as that company faced financial troubles, and briefly worked for German automaker Daimler at their recently opened engineering center in Ypsilanti, Michigan before moving on to GM's Oldsmobile division in 1978. After a decade and a half there, he was promoted to head the division in 1994.
Lucas took the reins at Oldsmobile at a troubled time; since the oil crisis and recession of the 1970s the division, GM's mainstream, volume brand, had downsized it's cars and become known as a maker of staid, bare-bones, and poorly made products and had been battered by overseas competition. Indeed, 1994 was the first year Oldsmobile was overtaken by Mawei, a Chinese automaker who had helped make the southern city of Fuchow China's Detroit, as the best selling brand in America. Lucas, a lifelong car enthusiast, was determined to turn around the division's fortunes with well equipped and well designed cars; his philisophy was that the best way to get a customer to buy a car was to elicit emotion right from the showroom floor. Working towards this goal, he hired up and coming industrial designer Chris Bangle to be Oldsmobile's new chief of design not long after his promotion. Bangle's influence was first seen on the 1998 Oldsmobile Aletta, introduced in January 1997 at the American International Auto Show (AIAS) in Detroit, a mid-size car replacing the staid Cutlass. Featuring edgy styling befitting it's name (Aletta means "Fin", as in of an aircraft or fish, in Italian) that was an early application of Bangle's trademark "flame surfacing" It became the best selling car in America and returned Oldsmobile to the top of the sales chart in 1998.
Lucas' boldest move at Oldsmobile was the return of the legendary 442 muscle car of the 1960s and early 1970s. Originally just a coupe on a shortened rear-wheel drive chassis from the Oldsmobile 88 full-size sedan sketched up by an engineer to pass the time, Lucas ordered it be produced. Ultimately the 88 chassis was reengineered to have suitable ride and handling characteristics, a Cadillac specification V8 was earmarked as power, and aggressive sheetmetal was cooked up by Bangle, heavily incorporating his trademark "Flame surfacing". The car was first unveiled at the 2000 AIAS as the 442-000 (Pronounced "four four two thousand") concept and went on sale in 2002 as a 2003 model. Originally standing for a four-barelled carburetor, four-speed manual transmission, and two exhausts, the 442 name was interpreted as standing for four valves per cylinder, four throttle bodies, and two doors. The only engine available was a 360 horsepower, 5.0L (305 cid) DOHC V8. Despite the radical styling, late arrival, and higher than projected starting price of around $29,000, it was a modest success, and sales picked up after the addition of an entry level model with a 297 horsepower, 3.3L (201 cid) supercharged V6 in 2004.
Having proved able to dramatically turn around Oldsmobile, Lucas was promoted to CEO and Chairman of GM in 2006, but has struggled to increase the company's market share in emerging markets despite stemming the loss of sales in the domestic market, and it has been rumored he will step down in late 2012. If so he will likely be succeeded by the company's CFO, Mitt Romney. Lucas is a practicing Methodist and lives in Royal Oak, Michigan and Los Gatos, California.