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...sorely bruised Central America's banana trade. In 1943 it shrank to less than a shriveled fifth of prewar normal. While the banana liners were diverted to more pressing runs, the golden fruit was left to rot where it grew. United Fruit, first lord of the banana empire, maintained its dividends mainly through revenue from ships and Cuban sugar estates. In Central America, United helped make up for U.S. losses of Manila hemp (and incidentally kept Central Americans employed) by cultivating needed abac...
...mass of men," wrote Thoreau from the fir-scented tranquillity of Walden Pond, "lead lives of quiet desperation." In periods of accelerated history, the organic rot of Rome, the collapse of the Middle Ages, the gigantic life & death struggles of 20th-century civilization, this desperation takes on a new intensity. Its symbol in our time is the emigre, the political fugitive...
Quickly the trouble spread. In Chicago, irate restaurateurs and hotelmen acidly asked OPA: how could they go on serving fruit and juices at ceiling prices? Indignant housewives went on strike, began serving prunes for breakfast. Moaned one Detroit retailer, watching his fruit rot on the shelves: "It's terrible. The customers...
Developed by Department of Agriculture chemists, the new "acetylated" cotton looks like the ordinary variety but is chemically treated to increase resistance to rot and mildew. Promised: rotproof cotton awnings, tents, fish nets, food bags...
...Family, Social Worker Cynthia Rice Nathan told how jungle-rot shyness is handled at Moore General Hospital near Asheville, N.C. The hospital explains away the townspeople's fears, a Red Cross social worker coaxes the men out of hiding. When they get up nerve to go to town, no one gives them a second glance...