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Word: atlases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who sit in their rooms fingering the pages of Hemingway and looking wistfully at the blank spaces in the Atlas, The African Lion will be sheer delight. In about an hour of colored photographs, Walt Disney's newest live animal film presents a truly remarkable sequence of scenes involving the wildlife of the African plains. The achievement of the film is not only one of photographic excellence, but of sheer persistence...

Author: By John A. Popn, | Title: The African Lion | 1/18/1956 | See Source »

...Dallas' All-American Home Lloyds, in the red by some $235,000, was thrown into receivership by the Texas Attorney General. Three other companies-American Atlas Life Insurance Co., Dallas Fire & Casualty Co. and U.S. Life Insurance Co.-had their licenses suspended because their officers were "unworthy." One of the three, U.S. Life Insurance, was controlled by Shoemake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Case Histories | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

COSMOPOLITAN WORLD ATLAS [Rand McNally; $13.95) is a fine new atlas chockful of up-to-the-minute information about every quarter of the globe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good for Giving | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

FLOYD ODLUM'S ATLAS Corp., already one of the biggest uranium miners, is growing still bigger. For $7,250,000 Atlas bought more than 50% of the Almar uranium mine through purchase of Almar Minerals Inc., which owns about 15,000 acres with at least 600,000 tons of ore in the Big Indian area of Utah. Total Atlas uranium investment: $37 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME CLOCK | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...concentrating his 100,000 troops in the openly rebellious regions of the North. Neither 20,000 Moroccan militiamen nor the private guard forces of nationalist political parties were enough to keep order. One week's incidents in Morocco: Atlas foothills, paid with his life for being overargumentative with a pistol-packing Frenchman. In retaliation, a mob of Moroccans besieged the police station and beat a French officer to death. ¶ Armed rebels from across the border in Spanish Morocco, summoned by hilltop bonfires, captured four villages and hacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: Order First | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

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