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...without Mr. Dooley as a shield: "Disrobing in public is not to my taste. There are intellectual and spiritual pudenda as well as physical. The more clothes I put on, the better I look. I plead guilty to preferring port and Montaigne to gin and Joyce or creme de cacao and André Gide...
Exports are in deep trouble. Prices of Latin America's major commodities-mostly agricultural products (cacao, sugar, coffee), minerals (lead, zinc) and petroleum-are down and slipping lower. Between 1957 and 1960, the overall price decline amounted to 11.5%, effectively canceling out a 13.5% increase in the volume of goods sold abroad. "This situation," said the report, "is unparalleled in other underdeveloped areas of the world...
...billion worth of support over the next ten years. Reversing a position of long standing, the U.S. has also agreed to take part in a scheme designed to support coffee prices. It may now be asked to do the same for such other Latin American commodities as cacao, lead and zinc...
...hands in the little Brazilian cacao port of Ilhéus complain that the place has become overcivilized, and with reason. Take the matter of government. In the past, a sane, orderly rule was established and maintained in Ilhéus by the most efficient of means: gunfire. Now, in the 1920s, there are modernists who say that gunfire is outdated; the new method is the free election. Polls are rigged, of course, to ensure that power remains in the proper hands, but oldtimers see no merit in the innovation; the elections are cumbersome and not at all entertaining...
Sunderland found himself at the head of an empire which, besides banana lands in eight tropical American countries, included cattle ranches, thousands of acres in sugar cane, cacao and oil palm, 1,380 miles of railroads, 55 ships, a sugar refinery and a communications network (Tropical Radio Telegraph Co.). He also found himself saddled with a chaotic organization in which three men might be working on the same project without being aware of each other's existence. The company also suffered from memories of the freewheeling days when it was run by the late Sam ("The Banana Man") Zemurray...