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...Bananas. Early in their session, the scientists were invited to assign the banana to its original home. It had long been agreed that southeastern Asia deserved the honor. Fossil seeds (probably Oligocene) from Colombia, however, argued that the banana is essentially an American fruit-Dr. Edward W. Berry, Johns Hopkins...
Died. Nicholas Cuneo, 72, "Banana King"; in Jersey City, after a long illness. Arrived by steerage from Italy 60 years ago, he pushed a cart of bananas through Chicago streets, came to Manhattan, entered the wholesale fruit business. He refused to enter the United Fruit Co. combination, became their largest independent competitor...
...economic resources of the Islands are inexpressibly and inexhaustibly rich. Indeed, they have what not only the United States, but every country needs for the cultivation of industry; valuable woods of various kinds, including, of course, the rubber tree; sugar plantations, coconut groves, orange, banana and pineapple farms. The waters teem with fish. Cattle are successfully raised. The land is fer tile. The climate benign...
Last Winter Siegfried Wagner (TIME, Jan. 28), son of the most imperial figure in the musical life of the last generation, visited the U. S.. His mission was essentially identical with that of every British lecturer, Russian ex-noble, Italian banana-vendor, who breaks through the barriers at Ellis Island: first, the uplifting of American taste, and secondarily, the collection of a bankroll...
...famed Banana, Song, however justifiable in 1923, is completely out of place this year. This is not so much due, however, to crop conditions as to the late Spring in the U. S. Ordinarily demand at the fruit stores begins in April, and exceeds the supply until about July 4. But consumers do not eat bananas in sleet storms and cold weather. This year the banana dealers' yellow bunches dangled under their canvas awnings in vain. Importation into New York by one large company is only about half of normal, while prices on a bunch are down from...