Word: fruited
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most succulent item of all, the United Fruit Company Incorporated reserved for itself: the heartland and coasts of my country...
Following a post-Inauguration lunch in a Senate office, Carter walked with Rosalynn (and part of the way with Amy as well) down Pennsylvania Avenue, leading the Inaugural parade-a mile-and-a-half stroll on a crystalline but subfreezing day. Four years earlier, fruit and garbage had been thrown at the limousine that carried Nixon down the same avenue...
Night Reading. The Brooklyn-born grandson of an immigrant Italian fruit vendor, Califano, 45, should feel at home. Once described as the "deputy President of the Great Society," he helped launch many of the programs he will soon be trying to run. As a special assistant to Lyndon Johnson, he wrote so many memos for L.B.J.'s "night reading" that the President once testily asked another aide whether "y'all brought 'em up here by pack mule...
...United Fruit has renamed itself United Brands, symbolizing the neutralization of its image and its power. It is getting older, weaker, and somehow more real. The banana plantations are still there, as ghostly as ever now that the banana bunches grow inside plastic bags on the trees, but they no longer exude their malevolent smell of intimidation. The local managers are smoothies instead of rednecks, and the worders are a well-off aristocracy of labor rather than serfs. The company has even gotten out of landowning, and prefers marketing and shipping...
McCann is sentimental when he calls Eli Black's suicide and the decline of United Fruit a tragedy. He has fastened onto the right image, but for the wrong people: it is unlikely that many tears were shed in Tegucigalpa. Black's plunge from the Pan American Building was the fall of the patriarch, the bringing to earth of the gods; it marks the era of United Fruit's demythification. This book shows that the times has passed in which the company and its work could only be described in fiction or polemic. It is time for a real historian...