Word: banana
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...next few months he will see obreros, mineros, Gauchos, banana pickers, oil drillers, dock-wallopers who live along the great river mouths and port towns, on the haciendas, in the mountains. All will listen to Lombardo...
Abacá-90% of it from the Philippines (a lot of it from around Davao, one of the first towns the Japs took)-looks like the banana plant (see cut, p. 63) and belongs to the same family. Bananas may grease the ways for a Victory ship launching, but abacá makes the rope for the world's navies. There has been little abacá since Manila fell, and there will be little if any more till Manila is retaken...
...immediate need for new ships-perhaps as transports to Hawaii and the Far East-will probably strip still further the service to Latin America. One fleet still untapped by the Maritime Commission last week was United Fruit Co.'s 52 banana carriers (26 U.S. flag, the rest Panamanian or Honduran). If these are requisitioned, the U.S. may have to subsidize some Central American republics, throw the bananas in the water. But if some more of the good-neighbor fleet is taken over, the South Americans may be roused into putting into service their share of the 85 Axis vessels...
Spree. In Detroit, a man confessed to breaking into 13 confectioneries to stuff himself with fancy desserts. He spent three hours in one place "just mixing myself banana splits, sundaes, and other refreshments...
Dumpling, 58-year-old Elsa Maxwell, professional party-thrower and No. 1 U.S. hedonist, will "do anything for a laugh-with me or at me." (Once, hard-pressed for a laugh, Elsa threw a banana peel on the stairs, laughed and laughed as she bounced black & blue to the bottom.) But one thing she drew the line at was writing a gossip column. So last week she turned columnist...