Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Europe's face remade in 1938, U. S. textbook maps today are out of date. Pupils learn geography from newspapers, magazines, such reviews as American Observer and Scholastic, which 600,000 youngsters read each week. They cluster for their daily lessons around school bulletin boards, across which march a procession of new maps and dispatches from war fronts...
...From textbook publishers' presses today pours a flood of books designed to teach democracy. Many of these books are less benign toward modern dictatorships than pre-War texts were toward the old European monarchies. Some denounce dictators. But most contemporary history books balance their moral indignation, state the dictatorships' case and let pupils judge for themselves. Sample excerpts...
Your Wings was published in January 1937. Before long, flying schools began to recommend it to students. Airlines, instrument companies, even CCC camps bought it. Tennessee, where flying courses are provided in State-run air schools, made it a textbook. Your Wings got its mightiest circulation zoom last spring, when the Soviet Government cornered the Russian rights and distributed 100,000 copies...
America's first textbook on cartography, written by Erwin Raisz, instructor in Cartography at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, went on public sale last week as it came off the presses of the McGraw-Hill Book Company in New York City...
...each other by telephone and wireless equipment, much of it filched from the Japanese. At their general headquarters, where a "general staff" of young officers, lent by the 8th Route (former Communist) Army, veteran Manchurian fighters and college students plan widespread attacks, the Associated Pressman discovered their well-thumbed textbook on guerrilla warfare: a translation of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by the late famed Lieut.-Colonel T. E. Lawrence of Arabia...