Word: atlases
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...Violence increased in both Algeria and Morocco. In Morocco, 700 Berber tribesmen burst out of the Atlas Mountains southeast of Fez and fell on the small French outpost of Imouzzer des Marmoucha. At exactly the same time, 90 miles to the north, other bands attacked the small town of Boured and two nearby outposts facing the border of Spanish Morocco. The besiegers cut roads, demolished bridges, held up French relief columns for six days before melting back into the hills. The attackers were highly organized, well armed, and skillfully directed by uniformed officers. The French bitterly charged that they were...
FLOYD ODLUM is nearing agreement with Howard Hughes on a deal to merge his Atlas Corp. with Hughes's RKO Pictures Corp., the parent holding company that Hughes retained after selling off its moviemaking subsidiary, RKO Radio Pictures. Under the deal, Odium will issue one share of Atlas stock for each 5% shares of RKO. In return, he will get no plants or production, but some important assets: $15 million worth of U.S. Government bonds and a $30 million capital-loss tax carryover, which Odium can apply against profits in other ventures...
...Advocate review--Levittown, Long Island, population 60,000, is a residential village outside New York City. cf. Rand McNally Commercial Atlas 1955, also Time Magazine for 1947. The town is a recent development. An Advocate Reader
URANIUM will continue indefinitely as the primary fuel for peaceful uses of atomic energy, predicts Atlas Corp. President Floyd Odium, and widespread use of thorium is years away. By 1965, he estimated, the U.S. will need 4,000,000 tons of uranium ore yearly, far more than is being mined today...
Three times the size of Texas, Algeria takes in a swatch of the Sahara, two broad seams of the Atlas Mountains, and a 100-mile-wide ribbon of fertile Mediterranean littoral where most of its largely Moslem population lives. Pacified, colonized, civilized through 125 years, Northern Algeria is officially a part of metropolitan France, and sends its Deputies to the Paris Parliament. Its approximately one million European settlers produce enormous quantities of the same wine and wheat that Frenchmen already produce in surfeit at home. Result: it must be subsidized from home, to the tune of some $50 million...