Word: guatemalans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...imports of Guatemalan chicle (for chewing gum) rose from 1,372,907 lbs. to 2,322,690 lbs. so far this year...
...Indian avocados are grown in Florida, and some 13,000,000 pounds were imported last season from Cuba (certain spectacular avocados weigh two pounds apiece). But most avocados eaten in the U. S. come from California. Californians look down their noses at the West Indian article; California avocados are Guatemalan or Mexican or a cross beween the two. The Fuerte, a hybrid, called "the sturdy" because it shivered through the Big Freeze of 1913, makes up 75% of California avocados...
...United Fruit Co. owns nearly 1,160 miles of railroad in Jamaica, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras and Guatemala. In Guatemala, where the Fruit Co. has more than 3,000 men working on 16,000 acres of bananas, it owns 137 miles of track. The principal Guatemalan banana road, however, is International Railways of Central America, which operates some 800 miles of track from the Pacific to the Caribbean with a branch down through Salvador on the West coast. Last week a deal was in progress by which United Fruit would strengthen its already strong hold upon International Railways...
Eastern terminus of International Railways, best port in Guatemala and shipping point for most of United Fruit's Guatemalan bananas, is Puerto Barrios on the Caribbean. In 1927 a United Fruit subsidiary got a concession from the government allowing it to build new ports on the Caribbean and the Pacific. For International Railways a new port on the Gulf of Amatique, competing with Puerto Barrios, would be a serious matter, for in the past few years United Fruit has shipped more and more bananas overland from the Pacific Coast to Puerto Barrios on the International. Thus, bananas reach...
Already open to traffic for several months, this $20,000,000 road is paved all the way except for one 69-mile gap. To dedicate it, Mexico planned elaborate ceremonies at Nuevo Laredo, including a motorcade of 50 distinguished U. S., Mexican and Guatemalan citizens traveling over the road. Leaving the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last week, Vice President Garner journeyed south to Texas to head the U. S. delegation part...