Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...typical, normal baby actions have seemed to a kindly and learned man in New Haven to be of supreme importance to Science. Fruit of that belief appeared last week in the form of a monumental, 15½-lb. compendium in two volumes, illustrated with 3,200 action photographs: An Atlas of Infant Behavior,* by Arnold Lucius Gesell, M. D., Ph.D., Sc.D., director of Yale University's Clinic of Child Development...
...call of important U. S. dailies. Only twice has a smalltown daily been thus honored: the Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun in 1926, the Canton (Ohio) Daily News in 1927. But the Pulitzer Prize winner for 1934 is so microscopic that most newsreaders east of the Rocky Mountains needed an atlas and an Ayer's Directory of Periodicals to identify it. It was the Medford (Ore.) Mail Tribune (circulation: 4,500). No less extraordinary than the obscurity of the winner was the fact that its achievement was conservatively defensive against a crusading opposition paper, the News. While the Mail Tribune...
...Hiba and Merebbi Rebbo Mehammedan of the south, sometimes called "The Blue Sultan,"* sometimes "The Saint." Nabbed in 1917 by the French, El Hiba passed his baton on to Brother Merebbi. For 16 years Merebbi's home has been the wide Moroccan Desert and the passes of the Atlas Mountains. By day he has worn dust on his tongue, sand in his eyes, and in his heart the resolve to wrest Morocco from the Christians. Last week a leather-skinned man stalked into the Spanish garrison at Cape Jubion the coast of Spain's colony...
...Atlas publishes no income account. But last week these U. S. corporations did publish their 1933 earnings...
...With such fallen comets as Pacific Eastern (formerly Goldman Sachs Trading Corp.), Blue Ridge Corp., Shenandoah Corp., etc., etc., President Odium had to take good assets with bad. Among Atlas subsidiaries (but not consolidated in the balance sheet) are Mississippi Valley Barge Line Co.; Alden Corp., which owns a closed furniture factory in Asheville, N. C., a vacant factory in Philadelphia and 17 vacant lots in Hoboken, N. J.; Palace Co., which owns an amusement park at Santa Monica, Calif.; Rewark Realty Corp., which owns the equity in a swank 52-acre Long Island estate; Red Banks Properties, Inc., which...