Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collections of the first half of the fiscal year 1924-5, had reduced income tax receipts only about $100, 000,000, which was more than made up by extra collections on other taxes, payments on the foreign debt, disposal of railroad notes and increased tolls of the Panama Canal...
Richard O. Marsh, Rochester (N. Y.), business man and bold and experienced explorer of Spanish-American wildernesses, was on his way last week from Colon (Canal Zone) to Manhattan with three "blond Indians" whom he persuaded to join him in Darien (Panama...
...myths. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, chief anthropologist of the U. S. National Museum at Washington, expressed the opinion that the blonds were "just plain albinos." If they should turn out to be of mixed white and Indian blood and should also hail from the San Bias region of Panama, that fact would shatter the proud tradition of tribal purity which the warlike San Bias Indians have so long maintained...
Died. Federico Boyd, onetime President of the Republic of Panama; after a sudden collapse, in Manhattan. He was a correspondent for The New York Times at the time the Republic was founded. His father, an American of Scotch ancestry, went to 'Central America during the gold rush. A son and daughter survive. The son's wife is Mrs. Elizabeth Boiling Boyd, niece of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson...
...does not necessarily mean, as it is sometimes interpreted, to raise rates as high as possible. The object of the Gooding bill is to prevent the railroads from lowering certain rates. The problem came up in 1887 and was referred to the Interstate Commerce Commission. The existence of the Panama Canal has put a new twist in it. The essence of the problem is that under certain conditions it pays the railroads to give cheaper rates on long haul than on short haul freight. The case in question has to do with shipments to the East from the Pacific Coast...