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Raisz is shown at his desk, working on a map of Arabia for which he has an Army contract. He estimates the map will not be complete until early next year...
Colonel Bishop likes his history translated into living beings and moving forces, an objective TIME has always had. His attitude is accepted readily by his students, one of whom remarked about the recent map of Russian slave labor camps: "There's nothing especially new about that for the Russians, is there? Couldn't the map have stood for the banishment camps and Siberian prisons the Czars kept for the disposal of their political opponents? The Bolshies are doing what Russians in power have been doing for generations...
Just as Fan was being led from the tent in which his interrogation took place, he stopped, returned to the map, studied it intently for a minute, and then marked it with a neat cross to guide U.N. artillery. "That," said Fan, "is where the division commander lives...
...Lattre runs his war in Indo-China in his usual grand manner. When not at the front, at his headquarters in Hanoi or Saigon, the routine is about the same. He sits at a huge, black-lacquered desk in Saigon's Norodom Palace; a map of the front stands behind him, and a grandfather clock ticks away. He stays up till 3 or 4 a.m. reading field reports, then issues his orders for the next day and turns in. He is up again at 10 or 11, after receiving advisers while still in bed. He is a meticulous dresser...
...Advance. A company ready to invest in Alberta oil can lease the rights on almost any amount of land by paying an advance yearly rent of $1 an acre and signing an agreement to go ahead with immediate exploration. When a company strikes oil, it has three months to map out its entire lease in alternate blocks, usually in checkerboard pattern. The company keeps half the blocks, and pays land rent to the farm owners (up to $1,500 a well), plus a government royalty averaging 14% on all oil produced. The alternate blocks of the checkerboard revert...