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...Vera Cruz last month a circus elephant to which French Consul Marcel Bourguin was feeding bananas suddenly knocked him down, stepped on him, tossed him across the tent (TIME, April 23). Last week in Toluca when one Miguel Solorzano fed the creature banana peels the same elephant trampled him to death...
...Banana-shaped Crete, in the centre, belongs to Greece. There in prehistoric times lived the Minotaur and there men fashioned golden goblets of great beauty and invented the water closet. On Crete at present is the summer home and strategic retreat of Eleutherios Venizelos, sly Grand Old Man of Greek politics...
...York State factory employment registered the widest midwinter gain since 1915-5-8%. Payrolls were up 6.2%. Reflecting the farmer's dogged determination to raise bigger crops on fewer acres, fertilizer sales for the last three months were 110% above the same period year ago. Northbound banana trains from San Francisco to Portland last year averaged 13 or 14 cars. Last week they were running more than 50 cars...
...Grande to the Horn. Named for a Caesar by his well-to-do coffee planter father, Sandino got a fair education at Nicaragua's Granada Institute de Oriente, roved aimlessly north. He worked in mines, in U. S.-owned oil fields, in filling stations and for a Banana company. He was back in Nicaragua when Dr. Sacasa and General Jose Maria Moncada set off a Liberal revolution in 1926. A vengeful-looking little man, scarcely five feet tall, part Indian, part Spanish, he talked well, was silent better. He gathered together 800 men and declared war. Sacasa and Moncada...
...United Fruit reported for its first full year under its new "Managing Director in Charge of Operations," it was clear that Sam Zemurray was still getting what he wanted. A net income of $9,000,000 was more than 50% above 1932 and a three year high for his banana business. This was better than $3 a share against $1.95 the previous year. With $37,000,000 in cash & Governments at the year end United Fruit was in the strongest financial position in its history. But Sam Zemurray still wants more, this week sails to inspect his banana lands which...