Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in the days of waning dollar-diplomacy, Dictator Ubico was "elected" President with U.S. blessing. Guatemalans noted that at the same time (1931) the potent United Fruit Co. wanted a juicy concession which the previous regime had refused to grant on United Fruit's terms. Ubico's first important act as President was to force the Assembly to pass the concession bill...
...Ubico grows richer, he grows more solicitous for property rights. His latest legal masterpiece (Decree #2795, April 22, 1944) "exempts landowners or their representatives from criminal responsibility for acts they commit against trespassers caught gathering game, fruit or firewood. . . ." In practice, a landowner may kill a hungry Indian caught plucking berries; he may kill a refractory laborer, no questions asked...
...Englander sent a cheerful note from Tripoli. Here, in a city which, except for some bombed buildings, looks untouched by war, he sat down on a restaurant balcony to a dinner of antipasto, spaghetti with meat sauce, steak and fruit tart. He washed it down with a bottle of sweet, heady wine while the organ-grinder played 0 Sole Mio on the sidewalk below...
...humblest of Cuba's humble pueblo. He began his education (including English) in a U.S.-Quaker missionary school. He made a hungry living as a laborer in the cane fields, on the docks and railroads. He was a jack-of-all-trades: tailor, mechanic, charcoal vender, fruit peddler, and finally an Army stenographer. In the Army he got around, became a staff sergeant with remarkably wide connections. When Gerardo Machado's hated dictatorship rotted away in 1933, Sergeant Batista, then 32, astounded the Western Hemisphere by taking over the Army and the Government...
...crop protector, it is deadlier and longer lasting than other insecticides, has been found effective against potato beetles, cabbage worms, apple codling moths, Japanese beetles, aphids, fruit worms, even corn borers - against which previous insecticides have proved to be failures...