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...arable acreage-will be paid off with 25-year government bonds. The bill exempts all farms of 225 acres or less and farms of less than 675 acres on which at least two-thirds of the acreage is cultivated. Also exempt, because they are cultivated: the vast banana plantations of the U.S.-owned United Fruit...
...article she prized among her effects (in fact, the only article of value she was allowed to take out) was the wedding ring which young Merchant Hecht had put on her finger more than 50 years before. In a few hours Mrs. Hecht was walking among the Jordan Valley banana groves, seven grandchildren beside her and three great-grandchildren tugging at her blue cotton skirt...
...mile Derby Trial, barrel-chested Hill Gail and banana-nosed Eddie Arcaro romped to a six-length victory in track-record time (1:35.4). The 78th running of the mile-and-a-quarter Derby was almost as easy for them. Breaking from the No. 1 position, they let the fast-stepping Hannibal (7O-to-1) set the pace for the first three-quarters of a mile. Then Hill Gail took off, quickly opened a six-length lead. After that, it was just a matter of hanging on, and the bay did-with only two whacks of Arcaro...
...came from them. The son of a poor farmer of mixed blood, he was born in 1901, while his country was still under U.S. occupation, at the eastern sugar town of Banes. Quitting Banes' Quaker School at twelve, he worked as a tailor's apprentice, bartender, barber, banana picker, cane cutter and railroad hand. At 20 he joined the Army. To other soldiers, he was virtually a literary type: there was always a book or magazine under the pillow of his bunk. When he got the chance, he studied shorthand and became a sergeant-stenographer, handling secret papers...
Honduras. The classic banana republic. After a longtime dictator stepped down in 1948, Juan Manuel Gálvez, a United Fruit Co. lawyer of the comfortable, old-shoe type won the presidency in an uncontested vote...