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...heard of Walter Benton's This Is My Beloved, which was published in February 1943 and has sold in 1944 approximately 22,000. Then don't you think TIME might have mentioned Rikky Harrison's Look at the World, which also went places as an atlas but was much more greatly distinguished, I think, as an important contribution to cartography...
...common stock to raise the money. But he did not want to pay the underwriter's fee for selling the stock, roughly $1,000,000 on a $25,000,000 issue. So he sat down with his old friend, Floyd B. Odium, boss of risk-taking Atlas Corp., who has long hankered to invest more of his corporation's idle cash in airlines. They worked out an unorthodox deal by which 1) Trippe will get his $25,000,000; 2) Odium will get his chance to invest-but no underwriter...
...part, Odium will underwrite the sale of $25,000,000 worth of the new stock-i.e., Atlas will buy any stock, up to this sum, which Pan Am's stockholders do not. In return, Atlas gets an option at $18 on 500,000 shares, hopes the market price of Pan Am stock will rise before the end of December 1947. But Trippe, jealous of his tight control of Pan Am, has shrewdly specified that Atlas can hold permanently only 200,000 shares, must resell the rest. In all. Pan Am expects to need $100,000,000. But Trippe...
Emphasizing "geographic landscape," Raisz says that "it is more important to know that a region is tropical forest and not desert than that it is 1000 or 2000 feet above sea level--thus, in this atlas, field is distinguished from forest, savanna from desort, tundra from boreal forest. The characteristics of mountains are indicated, cultivated land is shown and omitted are the couniless names of small places. Not to exclude the absence of gay colors showing where countries are--for who can know where the boundary line of the future will...
Through the novel means of "cartograms," air view maps, and the revolutionary "armadillo" projection, Raisz's Atlas treats the geography of world problems. A glance at the contents reveals such heretofore ungeographic topics as races, languages, religions, population donsity, poverty, disease, hunger,--and a host of others with even more curent and postwar significance, including geopolities and cultural diversions. "Our attitude on world problems," says Raisz, "depends upon our conception of the magnitude of the work that is yet to be done...