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...mountains of Guatemala and along the rivers of Honduras the long trains rolled again. Bananas were coming back. The green fruit, lovingly bedded on banana leaves, was headed for the hatches of United Fruit ships, and ultimately for U.S. breakfast tables. Last week some 100,000,000 bananas arrived...
...sorely bruised Central America's banana trade. In 1943 it shrank to less than a shriveled fifth of prewar normal. While the banana liners were diverted to more pressing runs, the golden fruit was left to rot where it grew. United Fruit, first lord of the banana empire, maintained its dividends mainly through revenue from ships and Cuban sugar estates. In Central America, United helped make up for U.S. losses of Manila hemp (and incidentally kept Central Americans employed) by cultivating needed abac...
...trend was now away from the steaming Caribbean coast to the drier country on the Pacific side and to new areas in the Dominican Republic. Symbolizing the changing course of banana empire, United Fruit's "Great White Fleet" would operate on a large scale for the first time in the Pacific. There, presumably, it would continue to accommodate passengers in the spirit of the Great White Fleet's unofficial motto: "Every banana a guest, every passenger a pest...
JUDITH takes final bite of her banana . . . tosses the banana skin on the floor...
...yowl of anguish shook the rafters. Miss Sylva valiantly spoke the moderately funny lines for which the banana business had been a cue, but they were completely drowned in the hubbub. A perfectly good banana had been sacrificed to make-believe...