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Hardest hit by Nicaraguan banditry and the new Hoover policy was Standard Fruit & Steamship Co. of New Orleans. Controlled by the Brothers Vaccaro, Standard Fruit has a $13,000,000 investment in northeastern Nicaragua, including 180,000 acres of banana and timber land and 65 mi. of railroad. Seven of its employes had been murdered. Fifty thousand "stems" (bunches) of bananas were rotting for lack of transportation. Inland plantations were paralyzed. Activities at Puerto Cabezas were suspended. Vainly in Washington did William Cyprien Dufour, Standard Fruit's attorney, plead for military protection in land. Washington Irving Moss, Standard's chairman...
...seas, with nearly 3,000,000 acres of unimproved land, Mr. Cutter had reason to wonder what effect the new Hoover policy of non-pro- tection would have throughout Central America. He was less concerned about Nicaragua where United Fruit's holdings are smallest (some 10,000 acres in bananas on the southeast coast near Bluefields), than he was about such countries as Honduras with 95,300 acres in banana cultiva- tion, Guatemala with 21,442 acres, Costa Rica with 27,228 acres in Cacao. Though the United Fruit had exercised its own form of diplomacy in these countries when...
Rats leave a sinking ship, but in the smoldering wreckage of the British airship R-101 a host of rats was found swarming soon after the crash at Beauvais, France. Rats like the banana oil smell and taste of the "dope" (cellulose acetate or cellulose nitrate) used for coating aircraft fabrics. Question before the crash court of inquiry in London this week: Were the rats in the wreckage French rats or were they British stowaways in the R-101, had they gnawed a freshly doped balloonet of hydrogen until the gas leaked...
...Water, Bananas. First reply to the Sackett speech from a Power man was by George N. Tidd, president of American Gas & Electric Co. He arose in Berlin to thank the Ambassador for calling public attention (and public sympathy, perhaps) to the high cost of distributing Power. By way of adroit analogy he mentioned water, which costs nothing at its source, and bananas. "The cost of the banana on the tree is infinitesimal, yet by the time it has been gathered and transported the ratio is nearer 1,500 than...
...each side of the wound, the ant's body is snipped off. The death grip of the head holds the wound together. Often as many as six ants are used on large wounds. Thus drawn together the wound is smeared with a weed-pulp paste, bandaged with dried banana leaves...