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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...docks are owned by U. F. C.; the railroad from the port to the capital (San Jose) is operated by U. F. C.; of the townspeople of Port Limón, 95% are employes of U. F. C. And only U. F. C. ships touch at Port Limón. Hence last week, when U. F. C. threatened to suspend trade with Costa Rica, Port Limón had reason to feel that life itself was being threatened...
...coffee in Costa Rican economics. Angry, the U. F. C. declared it would be cheaper to open new plantations in other countries, showed its annoyance by stopping new planting in Costa Rica, refusing to renew contracts with independent growers. United Fruit Co. trade is essential to Costa Rica. Last year Costa Rica's revenues came to $33,318,699, those of the fruit company to $20,606,393. Observers last week believed the law would be repealed...
...Cuyamel. Last week, also Central Americans heard that United Fruit Co. already the most important single factor in their trade, might become an even greater, more potent unit. From New Orleans, chief banana port, came rumors that U. F. C. had bought the Cuyamel Fruit Co., second in the field, operating eleven ships, large landowners in Honduras and Nicaragua. Combined assets of the two companies would exceed $250,000,000. Independent still would be the Standard Fruit and Steamship Corp., founded and largely owned by the Brothers Vaccaro of New Orleans...
...Last week friends of the artist were permitted to see in Manhattan nine of a series of ten new murals by Boardman Robinson for department-store tycoon Edgar Kaufmann of Pittsburgh...
...with the Egyptians. Venetians in the Levant when bartering was done with benefit of clergy so that polite thieving was sanctified. Subsequently they show the Portuguese in India, the Dutch in the Baltic, the English in China, slave traders and clipper ships in the 19th Century U. S.* The last is a generalized scene of modern industry- liners in a harbor, airplanes in the air, tall buildings rearing in the background, a sweating structural steel crew. Each unit is related to the whole by composition and color. There are no pretty girls, no idealization, no gold leaf...