Word: isthmian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Archibald E. King, 51, moved from executive vice president to president of Isthmian Lines Inc., descendant of the old Isthmian Steamship Co. Moving on from president to board chairman is Glenn B. Davis, 64, retired Navy vice admiral who joined the company in 1953. King, a veteran shipping executive, began his career in 1919, while still in high school, as a traffic clerk for Norton, Lilly & Co. He went to New York University, joined Isthmian in 1934 as assistant traffic manager. He moved up fast, became vice president in 1947 and executive vice president five years later...
...international boundary line. With banana pickers, cops and Cabinet Ministers wandering freely around, the ceremonies were simple and unsecretive. Costa Rica offered Panama a written invitation, under informal discussion for the past few months, to join the Organization of Central American States, which already includes all the other isthmian countries between Mexico and South America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica...
Final Surprise. Nixon finished his isthmian tour by listening to a startling opinion and delivering two of his own. In Costa Rica and later in Panama...
...million in debt, Chichi promised a brisk, businesslike administration, fairer and more efficient tax collections, and a realistic budget that would permit Panama to live within its means. Most of those means are derived from the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal, which bisects his tiny (pop. 805,000) isthmian country; the new President said that cordial relations with the U.S. will be the keystone of his foreign policy, and pledged relentless opposition to Communist influences and propaganda...
...they must live and work in the debilitating tropics, U.S. civil servants in the Panama Canal Zone have long enjoyed certain privileges. Among them: 25% pay differential, income-tax exemption, commissary rights and "recuperative" vacations of two months a year. These features have combined to make life in the isthmian strip a kind of welfare-state Elysium. But last week Elysium looked a little more like the good old U.S.A. Before leaving for its recess, Congress had enacted a law decreeing that the Zone's Government employees, like federal workers elsewhere, must pay regular income taxes. Unkindest...