Word: atlas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Erwin Raisz, Lecturer in Cartography, has collaborated with the Army Service Forces in preparing the "Atlas of World Maps" used by the Army Specialized Training Program to show overseas shipping routes, surface transport facilities, and population. As experts on mountains, Raisz and his proteges are constantly consulted by the State Department, the Coordinator of Information in the War Department, and the Office of Strategic Services...
Prepares Unusual Atlas...
...addition to his work for the government, however, Raisz has developed some new and unusual ideas which make his recently-published book, "Atlas of Global Geography," a pioneer work in its field and a genuinely different attempt at popularizing geography...
There follows a complex, legerdemainiac series of situations depicting the search for Gorgon's FATHER. The combined efforts of Barnaby, O'Malley and Atlas the Mental Giant are brought to bear. Gorgon père is finally discovered to be the nameless, galumphing coach hound of the local fire department. But that slobbering, fragrant beast has no vocabulary other than "Arf," is a parasitic icebox-crasher to boot. He refuses to move off the Baxter's porch rocker until frightened by the word "bath...
Children, Too. In other episodes, Barnaby and Mr. O'Malley hunt lions which are found to be only too real when a circus big cat escapes and holes up in the Baxter cellar. They aid Atlas the Mental Giant in a staggering plan to divide up the postwar world ("xVrP2+a" ∆x2y >13 It comes out wrong"). They foil black-market desperados through O'Malley's pretended attempt to repair the carburetor of the getaway...