Word: isthmus
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Black Lamb. Kamen, who defines his sales territory as reaching "from the Isthmus of Panama to Hudson Bay" (after Jan. 1 Disney's brother, Roy, will handle the rest of the world), considers himself the world's greatest Disney fan. Whenever a new picture is completed, he flies to Hollywood to preview it, begins selling its characters before the film is even released. Last week he had just seen Disney's latest, So Dear to My Heart, was already lining up contracts to reproduce its animal hero Danny, a little black lamb...
...Congress, the Canal Zone's governor has prepared a six-volume report on how to protect the vital Atlantic-Pacific short cut from atomic bombs. Army Secretary Kenneth Royall, on the hunt for alternate canal routes, last winter flew all over the country between Colombia and the Tehuantepec Isthmus in Mexico...
South of the fence line, in the infected area extending all the way to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (where another, shorter fence will be built), veterinarians are experimenting with aftosa vaccines shipped from The Netherlands and Argentina. If they work against the Mexican virus, and if the government can persuade skeptical campesinos of the necessity of sticking a needle into their animals every six months, Mexico hopes at least to control aftosa. U.S. experts are bearish, point out that the quarantine-vaccination method has failed in Europe. Like most U.S. cattlemen, they believe that the only cure for aftosa...
Preparation of biblical material for tribes that have never committed their language to a system of writing poses a great obstacle for the non-sectarian group. Such was the case with the Mazetaco Indians, citizens of Mexico in the Isthmus of Yucatan. Researchers financed through voluntary contributions to the society spent years living among these people to analyze their speech phonetically. Once the language is reduced to the Roman alphabet, the natives must be taught painstakingly to read it. New languages expressing the Logos of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John for the first time last year embraced eleven...
...years old-but Mexico does not yet raise enough food to feed itself. War-born industries are wobbly. Unemployment is growing. Furthermore, in recent months, nature has been anti-Mexican. Aftosa, the destructive foot-&-mouth disease, has crippled the basic cattle industry. A locust plague has stripped the Tehuantepec Isthmus. There has been widespread drought. There have also been torrential rains that have blocked highways and washed seed from the ground...