Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Miguel Abadia Mendez declared martial law, peace was restored, and from Santa Marta sailed a laden ship owned and operated by the United Fruit...
Because the number of banana eaters in the U. S. is practically a daily constant, and because from the banana comes such useful commodities as banana oil, the United Fruit Co. (Manhattan) has developed many square miles of banana plantations near Santa Marta. Here the company owns a railroad (28 miles), has its own telegraph and radio stations, maintains a hospital, employs 200 U. S. citizens, about 19,000 native workers...
...first time a Republican President had ever made a visit of any duration in Virginia. Crowds cheered the Coolidge progress through Staunton and Waynesboro to the Swannanoa Country Club, overlooking the Shenandoah Valley. Thanksgiving gifts poured up the mountain-a monster fruit cake, a dozen quail, a juicy Virginia ham, six boxes of apples, a monster turkey...
...William Trufant Foster, Boston pedagog-economist, director of the Pollak Foundation for Economic Research, and Waddell Catchings, Manhattan manufacturer-financier (shoes, collars, cans, rubber, motors, fruit, cereals, dairy produce, drugs, magazines, cinema), collaborated lately on a book* in which they suggested that all U. S. markets would be steadied if the governmental agencies of the U. S.-federal, state, municipal-would map out and authorize large programs of public work which will be needed eventually though not immediately. Let these programs then be held in abeyance, said the collaborators, until such time as labor and fiscal indices show or predict...
Colombia is prospering vastly, not only on account of major U. S. oil and fruit developments (see Map), but because the taste of Americans is rapidly turning from strong coffee to mild-the kind grown in Colombia, whereas stronger brands come from Brazil. The popularity of platinum and the present Parisian rage for emeralds are also potent prosperity factors, for Colombia is the largest producer of the white metal and the green stone. France is less than half as great as Colombia, in area; New York City is only slightly less in population...