Word: bananas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Samuel Zemurray has been getting what he wanted ever since he landed in Manhattan in the 1880's as an 11-year-old Bessarabian immigrant. From banana jobbing in New Orleans he got a stake to start importing bananas. When he could not get all the bananas he wanted in Central America he got some revolutionists busy. He clashed with big United Fruit in Guatemala and Honduras and when United Fruit wanted to buy out his Cuyamel Fruit Co. in 1930 he sold-on a share-for-share basis. United Fruit stock was then selling for $105 a share...
...summer of 1932 United Fruit stock was selling for $10.25 a share and Sam Zemurray's stake had shriveled to some $2,000,000. Earnings for the first six months of that year were a miserly 51? a share. So the towering, hawk-nosed banana man marched into a United Fruit board meeting with a fist full of proxies and stock certificates and shocked eminent Bostonian directors with a curt demand for power. He got it. They made him "Managing Director in Charge of Operations." From Boston to Bogota the United Fruit organization began to learn what...
...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...