Word: bananas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near the top of that hill we found a little hovel roofed by dripping banana leaves. Into this squalid hole two Chinese had crawled to die. One had already done so. I filled the dying man's rusty tin with water from a stream. He thanked me and fumbling feebly in his clothes offered me a battered cigaret. I did not accept...
...realize it. Monism, the realization of oneness of all things with differences merely in form, can be achieved only by those who reach ecstasy. 3) For each ladder of thought there is a corresponding series of duties. "In order to learn archery one should first aim at a banana tree, then at a reed, then at a wick, and last at a flying bird...
Billy Lovett stopped minding his own business after one of his Suwanee Fruit & Steamship Co.'s three freighters (outmoded World War I destroyers which he converted into banana ships) happened upon the stricken La Paz, towed her toward shore. A mile and a half off Cocoa, Fla. she sank in the mud and Government engineers despaired of salvaging her. But Lovett, with a $500,000 salvage claim against her owner, decided to heed the call of "patriotism and profit." At the U.S. marshal's sale, he bought her (for $10,000), set out to float her again...
From Central America in 1940 the U.S. imported 31.7 million stems of bananas, 1.7 million bags of coffee. Now banana boats are carrying steel ingots across the Atlantic, coffee ships are scattered around the world's oceans (or sunk). Central American Governments have not enough revenue to take care of their unemployed plantation workers and stevedores. Their chief hope is finding work in a big hemp-growing project in Panama and Costa Rica started by United Fruit Co. By 1943, 20,000 acres of abandoned banana lands will be planted in hemp with 20,000 additional acres ready...
...them, which recurred over some weeks, seemed to him to contain the key to the secret of the universe. With an enormous effort he managed one night to write the secret down. The denouement, he says, was disappointing, for on the following morning he read 'The banana is great, but the skin is greater...