Word: banana
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...poorest and least stable of Latin America's underdeveloped nations is Ecuador, a small, banana-growing republic perched on South America's Pacific rump. Ecuador's 4,400,000 people earn a per-capita annual income of only $165, one of the lowest in the hemisphere; by no coincidence only 13 elected governments have finished their terms in 131 years of independence. Last week President José María Velasco Ibarra, 68, earned the dubious distinction of becoming No. 35 to leave in midterm. Beset by strikes, riots and military revolts, he made a dash...
...Dallas: For story on Texas amusement park, is it correct to say that the 103 fans are in oak trees, palm trees and banana trees? See SHOW BUSINESS, Under Nothin...
Another reader reported that Sanford's Xit, an ink eradicator, was also fine for removing banana-leaf stains, a common island washday problem. When this intelligence, duly confirmed by a home test, appeared in "Readers' Exchange," it generated such a demand that the U.S. manufacturer had to fly in an emergency planeload-which vanished in a day. So many similar hints poured in ("For those who have no dustpan. Wet the edge of a newspaper. Place it on the floor and sweep residue onto this"), that Columnist Heloise soon had a reputation as a household authority...
...hips, man's shirt open to the navel. "To the nearest motel?" But Joyce is more than a kidder; she packs a mean pistol, which she has used to hold up a gas station and steal a car. At the village drugstore, Dave separates her from her banana split, shoves her and two sinister cronies into a squad car and heads toward headquarters...
...political stability, Honduras is a long way from being a democratic showcase. Villeda Morales calls it "the country of the four 705-70% illiteracy, 70% illegitimacy, 70% rural population, 70% avoidable deaths." The original "banana republic," Honduras is being driven out of that depressed market by murderous competition from Ecuador, and by plant-rotting Panama disease in its own crops. Both United Fruit Co. and Standard Fruit have cut payrolls, and United Fruit is selling its holdings. Meanwhile, government dollar reserves have slipped to $9,900,000; tax revenues are down to $38 million annually, while the government...