Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chavante village, Dr. Genesio Pimentel Barbosa, head of the commission, called a parley. The Indians silently listened to his offers, brought fruit for the white...
...minutes six of the white men of peace were violently sick. The fruit had been poisoned. Still no member of the expedition laid a finger on his rifle. Even when the Chavantes attacked them with poisoned arrows and slashing machetes, the white men did not shoot. Only one man of the seven escaped into the jungle...
...immediate need for new ships-perhaps as transports to Hawaii and the Far East-will probably strip still further the service to Latin America. One fleet still untapped by the Maritime Commission last week was United Fruit Co.'s 52 banana carriers (26 U.S. flag, the rest Panamanian or Honduran). If these are requisitioned, the U.S. may have to subsidize some Central American republics, throw the bananas in the water. But if some more of the good-neighbor fleet is taken over, the South Americans may be roused into putting into service their share of the 85 Axis vessels...
...party given by Warm Springs Trustee Leighton Goldie McCarthy, 71-year-old Canadian Minister to the U.S., and went to his annual Warm Springs turkey dinner, twice postponed by the crisis. He did well by the 4,300 calories (twice the volume of three ordinary meals) from gingered fresh fruit in cider through roast young torn turkey and oyster-corn stuffing to pumpkin...
...weeks of negotiations between the Harvard University Employees' Representative Association and the College Administration bore fruit yesterday when the University announced a compromise wage increase for 2200 of its workers effective January...