Word: cartes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Upset Cart. In the days of Baker and Keith and Zemurray, the banana trade was deliciously profitable, and many a Boston fortune was founded upon "green gold" (from the greenness of bananas , when shipped). But during the past decade United Fruit has slipped badly. Net earnings per share plummeted from $7.49 in 1950 to $2.60 in 1958 and a dismal $1.39 last year. Labor costs rose steeply during the 1950s. The company has been faced with "unprecedented, abnormal" bad weather and persistent plant diseases...
Above all other difficulties, competition from Ecuador has upset United Fruit's banana cart. Ecuador's banana exports have increased 1,000% since the late 1940s, giving it 20% of the world banana trade and making it the world's No. 1 producer. Only one-fifth of Ecuador's bananas are shipped by United Fruit...
...agent for a major U.S. publisher checked into book sales at Iowa State University recently and got a terrible shock. Pirated editions of U.S. books, mailed from Formosa, were arriving in such numbers that the campus post office had to use a hand cart to make deliveries. For the past two months, Iowa State students had been ordering .books at the rate of $500 a week. Catalogues offered more than 1,000 of the latest U.S. textbooks and bestsellers at only 10% to 25% of their U.S. list price. Gray's Anatomy went for $2.50 (v. a U.S. list...
...18th century's greatest physician looked and acted like some crazed quack in a horror movie. A squat, curmudgeonly eccentric, he jounced through London in a cart hauled by three Asiatic water buffaloes. A moatless drawbridge guarded his rambling home at 12 Leicester Square. In the fetid basement of his country villa, a vast copper cauldron was kept at the boil; there he melted down human and animal corpses to get fresh skeletons for his grisly pathological museum of pickled fetuses, stuffed one-eyed pigs and cock-plumed hens. There may have been, as his contemporaries thought, more madness...
Came the Revolution. George Sand's grandmother once told her that "the Revolution brought old age into the world." Certainly, the tumbrils seemed to cart off some of the zest of Author Epton's chronicle. Napoleon, the self-made emperor, bolted his love affairs the way he bolted his meals. Lovers, who had been pretty vigorous since the Renaissance, again began to talk about dying. A book on How to Succeed in Love, published in 1830, suggested fainting fits, attacks of hysteria, and suicide threats. Morbid romanticism subsequently gave way to liaisons based on credit ratings. Toward...