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...banana, whose stalks hang upsidedown in the grocers, has leaves with blade 6 ft. to 8 ft. tall, 12 in. to 15 in. wide, petiole (stalk) up to 6 ft. long. (Stalk in cocoloba not over...
...BANANA BOTTOM-Claude McKay -Harper ($2.50). Novel of Jamaica Negroes by one of them who later lived in Harlem...
...Antoni who sailed a lugger on the river. Soon the Vaccaros pooled their funds and chartered a leaky schooner, sent Son-in-Law D'Antoni to Central America for bananas. The venture was a little gold mine. Presently the Vaccaros bought a battered tramp steamer. Bananas boomed. The Vaccaros acquired a fleet of modern ships, bought up banana plantations in Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua. Panama. Swart, stocky, with soft voices, the Vaccaros are now in their 70'$, are still known as shrewd traders. Until after the War they tended strictly to their banana business...
...populous capital, was sharply ripped by the storm's 120-m. p. h. vortex. Lesser villages were torn from the hillsides. In all, 217 Puerto Ricans were killed, 2,219 injured, 75,000 left homeless. Next day Governor Beverley flew over the devastated areas, reported that the entire banana crop was destroyed, that coffee and tobacco had suffered a 50% loss, citrus fruits nearly...
...best players of the rival football team. The football players kidnap Chico and Harpo. Harpo and Chico saw their way out. Half naked, they drive to the game in a perambulating garbage can that resembles a chariot (see front cover). After Harpo has made one touchdown by scattering banana peels in the way of the opposing team, all four Marx brothers ride up the field in their refuse wagon and put down several balls for several more touchdowns...