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    The United Fruit Company (later the United Brands Company) was an American multinational corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas)...
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    Standard Fruit Company (now Dole plc) was established in the United States in 1924 by the Vaccaro brothers. Its forerunner was started in 1899, when Sicilian...
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    Honduras from 1911 until 1929, before being purchased by the United Fruit Company. The company was founded in the 1890s by William Streich to export bananas...
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  • Fruit Tree is an American film and television production company, founded by Emma Stone and Dave McCary in 2020. The company has produced the films When...
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    The Boston Fruit Company (1885-1899) was a fruit production and import business based in the port of Boston, Massachusetts. Andrew W. Preston and nine...
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    the Spanish invasion. His policies ran afoul of the United Fruit Company, which lobbied the United States government to have him overthrown. The U.S. was...
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    formerly known as United Fruit Co., is a Swiss-domiciled American producer and distributor of bananas and other produce. The company operates under subsidiary...
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    New Left intellectuals Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm and preferred the company of activists to that of intellectuals. Chomsky remained largely ignored...
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  • The Fruit Company is an American company that was founded in 1942 by Roy Webster. The company, still privately owned and led by CEO Scott Webster, has...
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    passion fruit (Portuguese: maracujá and Spanish: maracuyá, both from the Tupi mara kuya "fruit that serves itself" or "food in a cuia") is the fruit of a...
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    Banana republic (category United Fruit Company)
    Honduras under economic exploitation by U.S. corporations, such as the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita). Typically, a banana republic has a society of extremely...
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    Banana Wars (category Invasions by the United States)
    trade and to project its naval power. US companies, such as the United Fruit Company and Standard Fruit Company (now Dole plc), also had financial stakes...
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    1954 Guatemalan coup d'état (category 1954 in the United States)
    nationalists wanting social reform throughout Latin America. The United Fruit Company (UFC), whose highly profitable business had been affected by the...
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    Fruit of the Loom is an American company that manufactures clothing, particularly casual wear and underwear. The company's world headquarters is located...
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    the United Fruit Company- lead a coup d'état against president Carlos Herrera who had resisted to approve the concessions granted to the United Fruit Company...
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    cargo on the return leg. The large fruit companies such as Standard Fruit Company, United Fruit Company in the United States and Elders & Fyffes Shipping...
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  • granted significant concessions to the United Fruit Company, an American corporation that traded in tropical fruit, and dispossessed many indigenous people...
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    1912 and 1913 for the United Fruit Company as a combination cruise ship and refrigerated cargo ship. The United Fruit Company's fleet of about 85 ships...
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    Sam Zemurray (category United Fruit Company)
    Cuyamel Fruit Company and later became president of the United Fruit Company, the world's most influential fruit company at the time. Both companies played...
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  • the business was worth $12 million. In 1906, United Fruit Company bought a half share in the company, but antitrust law forced them to sell it. Di Giorgio...
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    infrastructure, but only via granting concessions to the American-owned United Fruit Company, whose influence on the government was deeply unpopular among the...
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    Banana Massacre (category United Fruit Company)
    Matanza/Masacre de las bananeras) was a massacre of workers of the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita) that occurred between December 5 and 6, 1928, in the...
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  • meatpacking company. AMK joined the nation's top 500 companies in 1967. In September 1968, Black bought 10% of the outstanding shares of United Fruit on the...
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    the Tela Railroad Company, a subsidiary of the United Fruit Company whose Honduran headquarters were there until 1970. The company brought in many labourers...
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    1920, after the Unionist party deposed Manuel Estrada Cabrera, the United Fruit Company -which had received considerable concessions from the Guatemalan...
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  • Natural Fruit Company, Ltd. (NFC), also called "Natfruit", is a Thai privately owned fruit wholesaler, specializing in pineapple. It was established on...
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    approximately 10 hectares of property that was previously owned by the United Fruit Company in the alluvial plain of the Térraba River. The archaeological site...
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  • The United Fruit Company strike of 1913 started on June 2, 1913. It was a worker-led strike organized by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in New...
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    to the United Fruit Company and then be indebted to the company having to work on the land and pay back the company. The United Fruit Company would hire...
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    export of bananas to the United States. In 1899, Keith's banana-trading concerns were absorbed into the powerful United Fruit Company, of which he became vice-president...
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