Banana split.

World Watch | January 1, 1993| | Copyright

In the 1880s, when a young railroad baron from Brooklyn planted banana trees along the Atlantic coast o Costa Rica, he could hardly have known that he was sowing the destinies of entire economics.

Over the next century the banana trade boomed as the Old World transplant became the world's most widely consumed fruit. The business that Minor Cooper Keith started became the United Fruit Company - still the world's largest fruit producer - now known as Chiquita Brands. And, thanks too to the gunboat diplomacy that helped keep power in the hands of rulers friendly to the ...

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