Word: mainlanders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Many a costly hope was placed in Central America, spurred by Union Oil Co.'s discovery in Costa Rica last September of the first oil ever found in quantity between Mexico and the South American mainland. That well quickly flooded with salt water, but Union will drill two more, and Costa Rica is enacting a liberal oil code. Because the Costa Rican discovery was right on the border of Panama, which already had an inviting oil law, six U.S. firms hurried there. All of Panama has been let out on exploratory concessions, and three test wells drilled...
...about $44,000 of the Authority's operating deficit, and although Mooney said taxes were still "low for Massachusetts," increased costs threaten to raise the rates. The new representative said he will seek state funds on the grounds that the Steamship Line is "Nantucket's road to the mainland," and that the state should help maintain roads...
...Formosa, Nationalist China's austere President Chiang Kaishek, for the moment at least a bystander to history, turned 70, still dreamed of recapturing the Chinese mainland, still showed no signs that the Red Chinese newspapers he reads each morning at breakfast are spoiling his appetite...
...more help than the President's calming reassurances. Certainly, the Israelis must return to Israel and fire must cease. But the threat that the General Assembly will stay in session until these things occur is the emptiest one since Chiang Kai-shek intimated that he might reconquer the Chinese mainland...
...island to ask Congress for statehood-which would give Puerto Ricans the vote in U.S. elections, but would subject them to the income tax. Munoz Marin sticks by his self-designed commonwealth status, under which Puerto Rico has substantial home rule along with tariff-free access to the U.S. mainland market, plus the common citizenship with the U.S. that lets the island's unemployed migrate freely. The majority of Puerto Ricans seem to like the commonwealth plan, and those who do not are split between Ferre's Statehood Party and the diehard Independence Party. With that advantage, Munoz...