To carry its 50,000,000 bunches of bananas yearly from plantations to the sea, United Fruit Co. owns nearly 1,160 miles of railroad in Jamaica, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras and Guatemala. In ...
Originally published as: Jungle capitalists. Map on lining papers. In this exploration of corporate maneuvering and subterfuge, journalist Chapman shows how the importer United Fruit set the precedent ...
NORMA, N.D. — On a hot summer evening in 1914, while Anton Nelson arranged bananas in rural Norma, North Dakota’s only grocery store, he felt a tickling sensation crawl across his neck. Thinking the ...
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