Word: jamaicas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Advance, Jamaica (N.Y.) Long Island Press, Newark Star-Ledger, Long Island City Star-Journal, Syracuse Herald-Journal, Post-Standard and Herald-American (Sunday), Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot and News, Jersey City Jersey Journal, Portland Oregonian, Birmingham News, Huntsville (Ala.) Times, St. Louis Globe-Democrat...
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...Central America toppling governments and creating the sprawling United Fruit Co. banana empire are long gone. There was Lorenzo Dow Baker, the founder, a Massachusetts schooner captain who got into bananas back in 1870 when he found that the fruit he skeptically picked up for 25? a bunch in Jamaica fetched $2.50 a bunch or more in New York. There was Minor C. Keith, who hacked through Central American jungles a railroad line that, according to legend, cost a human life for every tie in the first 25 miles. And then there was Russian-born Sam Zemurray...
Lapidus followed his Florida successes with the 176-room Arawak Hotel in Jamaica and the 150-room Aruba Caribbean-Casino in the Netherlands West Indies...
Tanned and relaxed from a week in Florida and Jamaica, Jack Kennedy buoyantly strode into a rally at the Stonewall Jackson Hotel in Clarksburg, W. Va. Cheers from 300 Democrats rang out so loudly that the county Democratic chairman, Benjamin Stout, tumbled right off his perch of official neutrality. Carried away by the excitement, he introduced Kennedy as "a man who probably will be the next President...