Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week came good news: United Fruit Co. announced that its first harvest of abaca on its Panama plantation showed a 50% greater yield per acre than has been obtained in the Far East. By the end of 1944 United will have 40,000 acres in Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras, from which it hopes to supply half U.S. normal requirements of around 40,000 tons a year. All of it will go to the Navy, which will share with the Merchant Marine...
...airlines last week sprouted all over the postwar map. Into the Washington offices of the Civil Aeronautics Board came a shower of airline route applications -from Honolulu to Moscow, from Boston to Guatemala City...
...also granted an application-Pan American's three-year-old petition for a New Orleans-Guatemala City route. Pan American will start service within five weeks, will use four-engine, 33-passenger Boeing clippers for the 1,100-mile over-the-Gulf hop. Biggest advantage: U.S. citizens will have their first south-central international airport (other southern ports: Miami, Los Angeles, Fort Worth and Brownsville, Tex.). Biggest disadvantage: cramped facilities at New Orleans, where the largest hangar leaves three feet of Clipper wingtip in the rain...
...United Fruit's troubles are also the troubles of Central America, 80% of whose monthly crop of 100,000 tons of bananas rots in the fields for lack of shipping to the U.S. Broke and disillusioned, the people of five banana-exporting Central American republics (Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras) are now angry at the United Nations' policy that annihilated their chief export but failed to provide them with any other means of employment. The problem is all the more acute since Government revenues, which might be used for unemployment relief, in most cases are largely dependent...
Moreover, the opening this month of a new railroad bridge across the Suchiate River between Mexico and Guatemala makes it possible to move freight between the two countries without benefit of tiny barges poled by leisurely boatmen. By next May, when the Central American links of the Inter-American Highway are scheduled to be completed, there will at last be a continuous overland route from the U.S. to the Canal Zone. Mexico's spindly transportation system will then funnel a vastly greater flow of traffic...