Word: costa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Costa Ricans knew that their new President José Figueres intended to ask for a drastic revision in the government's contract with the United Fruit Co., the country's biggest business. Last week the President uncovered an ambitious, long-range plan that would eventually put banana production in Costa Rican hands, but leave distribution to United Fruit...
President Figueres chose to outline his plan in a 2,000-word letter to U.S. Ambassador Robert C. Hill. Terms of the existing contract, he said, are fair and just only in the spirit of 50 years ago, when banana cultivation was a little-known and risky venture. Now Costa Ricans are capable of producing commercial crops, and he proposed to buy out the company plantations-housing, schools, hospitals, machinery, servicing equipment and all. His government would resell the plantation properties to Costa Ricans, but would keep and run the schools and hospitals...
Then, as if to indicate that he might well settle for less, Figueres listed another set of proposals he had made to United Fruit's chairman. Here he got much more specific: pending future sale of its Costa Rican assets, the company should now 1) accept a boost in its corporation tax from 15% to 50%, 2) forgo its tariff exemptions and pay the regular 25% duty on its stores and equipment imports...
Condon's district, which includes strongly democratic Contra Costa county, was staggered by the charges against Condon last spring. But Conden showed the charge was made on the basis of "guilt by association" charges, such as his law firm's defense of unions...
Cameras in the Sky. Meanwhile, the helicopters of 1953 are finding new and increasingly fantastic employment with every passing day. They string power lines across peaks of the high Rockies, and thresh slowly over northern Canada doing mineral surveys from the air. They have landed yellow-fever vaccine in Costa Rican jungle clearings, and have plucked sick, wounded or stranded men from mountain ledges, deep canyons, flood areas and sinking ships all over the world...