Word: zim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover story was going to press, Kraar had finished a two-year stint in India and was on his way to a new assignment in Southeast Asia. Our new bureau chief in New Delhi, bringing the on-the-scene aspects of the story up to date, is Marvin Zim, who, as a Washington correspondent, had worked on that end of the story before he left for India...
...firm that has built $100 million worth of projects in eleven African and Asian countries, including Katmandu airport in Nepal and the University of Ife in Western Nigeria; Koor Industries, a complex of 30 factories that turns out everything from cement and glass to steel and light bulbs; the Zim shipping company; and 90% of Israel's domestic bus and truck transport...
Though partially state-controlled, ZIM is run with the profit-consciousness of a private enterprise by its general manager, Naftali Wydra, a lawyer who fled Berlin in the '30s, managed to get to Palestine, and helped the Zionists set up kibbutzim right under British noses. On its 1963 revenues of $67 million, the line earned a modest $1,000,000. In directing a worldwide enterprise that employs 3,800 Israelis, Wydra, who has headed ZIM since its founding, faces some unique problems. Because ZIM cannot use the Arab-owned Suez Canal, it must divide its fleet between Israel...
Founded by two Zionist groups, the tiny line - named ZIM from a contraction of two Hebrew words meaning merchant marine-ran the British blockade with such doughty ships as the Exodus, the inspiration of the novel by Leon Uris. Today ZIM sails on as a firm worth an estimated $140 million; its six passenger ships and 34 freighters carry 41% of all Israel's imports and 26% of its exports. This year ZIM plans to add another 19 cargo ships, which will make it one of the world's dozen largest lines, comparing respectably with Cunard (whose gross...
Last week, nearly 20 years after its founding as a refugee runner, ZIM added to its fleet a handsome new flagship. From St. Nazaire's Chantiers de 1'Atlantique, famed builder of the Normandie and France, it took delivery of the Shalom (Peace), a $20 million, 24,500-ton luxury liner that will make her maiden voyage to New York next month...