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...observer of last week's developments who was quite as intensely interested as the Standard Fruit men, was Boston's Victor Macomber Cutter, president of far-flung United 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...
...Nicaragua against the government of President Vincente Mejia Colindres. Rebel forces under Generals Diaz and Ferrera fell upon the north coast towns of Tela, Progreso and Ceiba, were repulsed by loyal troops, seized fruit company locomotives, cars, tracks. Standard Fruit (Honduras holdings: 164,000 acres in bananas; 250 mi. of railroad) and United Fruit ordered its ships to stand by at the ports to take off U. S. refugees...
This state of affairs made New York citizens more than ordinarily interested last week in their State's struggle before the U. S. Supreme Court to enlarge the city's water supply by tapping the distant Delaware River. At present the city pipes most of its water 100 mi. down from the Ashokan (130-billion-gal.) and the Schoharie (20-billion-gal.) reservoirs in the Catskill mountains. Other big reservoirs (Croton, Kensico) nearer the city supplement this supply. Four years ago the city administration authorized a $275,000,000 program whereby the headwaters of the Delaware, all within New York...
...swanky Hotel Meurice on the Rue de Rivoli where he had reserved an entire floor for his family and his followers at $600 per day. After Paris police warned that they could not protect him adequately in the city, the King moved with his entourage to Fontainebleau, 15 mi. distance, took quarters in the Hotel Savoy. Soon the $20,000 which he had brought with him was nearly exhausted by loans to his companions who, in their haste, had fled Spain penniless. Straightway he began to negotiate loans upon a personal credit estimated...
...entry list was amazingly big - 228 - but the heat helped cut it to 189 actual starters on the 26-mi. run. They jogged along the road from Hopkinton to Wellesley - the halfway mark - and at Wellesley Square the college girls came out to wave to them and runners who still felt spry waved back. But the last half of the course was the real test...