Word: tection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fruit Co. With $1 26.000,000 invested in Central American tropics, with 1.500 mi. of railroad, with 115 "Great White Fleet" ships plying the seas, with nearly 3,000,000 acres of unimproved land, Mr. Cutter had reason to wonder what effect the new Hoover policy of non-pro- tection would have throughout Central America. He was less concerned about Nicaragua where United Fruit's holdings are smallest (some 10,000 acres in bananas on the southeast coast near Bluefields), than he was about such countries as Honduras with 95,300 acres in banana cultiva- tion, Guatemala with...
...friends, how amazingly easy it would be to get millions of pounds sterling back for British consumption without putting a brass farthing of pro tection upon any commodity that comes in!" ? with no reference whatever to-how the millions of pounds might be got back, or from where...
...interference" in Cuba by U. S. Marines. If it becomes necessary to send them this will be "the formal action of the Government of the United States, based upon just and substantial grounds, for the preservation of Cuban independence, and the maintenance of a government adequate for the pro tection of life, property and individual liberty...
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