Word: jamaica
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James Stanley Jennison, of Cambridge, Malcolm Ferguson Stewart, of Jamaica Plain...
...attention by buying many a carload of hay in Michigan and sending it to himself via Bush Terminal. To impress on steamship lines the existence of his terminal, he hired two Norwegian tramp steamers and began to import to himself via Bush Terminal tons and tons of bananas from Jamaica. Today twelve steamers dock at the Bush Terminal on an average day, and one-fifth of the freight handled in New York passes through it. With quiet pride Mr. Bush says of his terminal : "I have built, and it is my creation...
Hero Peat, 35, lecturer and anti-war propagandist, was born in Kingston, Jamaica, naturalized a U. S. citizen in 1922. In the War he served as a private (1914-1917), 3rd Battalion, 1st Canadian Infantry, was gassed once, wounded twice, left on the battlefield 56 hours. His medals...
...Victor M. Cutter, onetime timekeeper and now President of United Fruit Co. Most famed North-Central American enterprise, U. F. C. is the largest fruit shipper (97 steamships in the Great White Fleet), largest landowner (2,000,000 acres in Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Canary Islands, Jamaica, Nicaragua, England, France, U. S.), largest U. S. banana importer (1928: 33,872,000 stems). Last year the Great White Fleet carried 72,000 passengers. On land, United Fruit Co. operates 2,300 miles of railway and tramway, owns herds of 30,000 cattle, 12,000 horses and mules...
...April 23, Carrier Rowan landed in Kingston, Jamaica, sailed Cuba-ward that night on a dirty native fishing boat under the eyes of the Spanish patrol which was scouring the Caribbean. Flat on his back against a gunwale, Carrier Rowan heard a Spaniard swagger alongside shouting queries; heard his pilot's lazy answer, the Spaniard's satisfied grunt...