Word: chiquitas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, that is a condensed version of what has actually happened to United Fruit Co.-famed in the U.S. for Chiquita bananas, but known to generations of Latin Americans as "el Pulpo" (the Octopus). The Talmudist is Eli Black, who in 1970 merged United Fruit into a food-based conglomerate that he was assembling, and has proceeded to change its operations, its image, and even its name-to United Brands Co. The payoff: United Brands has gone from a net loss of $24 million in 1971 to a net profit of $10 million for this year's first half...
Black is also steadily reducing United Brands' dependence on Chiquita. In 1969 the company picked up the Baskin-Robbins chain of 1,121 ice-cream parlors and A & W International, the root-beer chain. Now, he says, he has been arranging joint cattle-raising ventures with a number of Latin American countries, which he will not name...
...cheap source of both protein and calories. United Brands earlier this year opened a 9,000-acre banana plantation in the Philippines with an eye to the Asian market. Company executives are also negotiating with a number of Eastern European governments in the hope of getting them to consider Chiquita bananas not a symbol of Yanqui imperialism but a part of Communist diets...
...wearing a striped blazer decorated with a yellow rose, she a big-shouldered coat, sequined Chiquita Banana shoes and a green straw hat. After presenting the $350,000 they had raised for earthquake relief for Nicaragua to the Pan American Development Foundation in Washington, Rolling Stone Mick Jogger and his look-alike Nicaraguan wife Bianco decided to try the exclusive Sans Souci restaurant. Paul DeLisle, the maître d'hôtel, was not impressed. "No reservation; no tie," he said, turning them away...
...string. Next, in a variation on the wedding theme, the other dancer, a tall, athletic-looking brunette named Chiquita, peeled down to her string while wildly depicting the convulsions of her drug-addict groom, who turns her wedding night into a nightmare as he longs...