extraordinary. at this time but they re pioneering in a more fundamental way because this company is actually creating a market for going on us as well as pioneering how to deliver the product to the consumer so in 890 nobody in the united states really knew what a banana was basically. by the 1914 you can buy been on as in virtually all big american towns. tasty nourishing full of the. united fruit company had a flair for promoting bananas. mothers with families were the targets the company published recipes and paid pediatricians to praise the bananas nutritional values. very soon americans could no longer do
anyone who managed to transport it quickly enough before it got ripe and wrought could turn it into gold. miner recognize that very soon he was exporting bananas and he was saved from bankruptcy. he struck an agreement with the government in costa rica he would finish work on the railway in return he asked for the right to use the line and receive ownership of large plots of land. land to grow bananas. trains for transporting them quickly and cheaply. the foundation of his fortune. in 899 mine i entered a partnership with 2 men from boston he had the plantations and railways his
without them. 2 imported in huge quantities they were low in price and widely accessible. at melbourne and i. asked my advice that is a delicate storms floods and heatwaves regularly destroyed crops bananas threatened to become scarce. that was. that my. dad. mine and his associates knew they needed to grow ever more bananas over a much larger area right across central america and.
salmon of anonyma and had arrived. samuel s a merry challenge the united fruit company until finally his competition became too troublesome for them. in november $1029.00 he accepted a merger united fruit bought out his company korea merrill samuel received $30000000.00 worth of united fruit company shares. if this made him one of the richest men in the united states and also united fruit biggest shareholder. in 933 he dismissed the company s board of directors and took singlehanded control as one magazine headline put it a journal who swallowed the whale. a true 56 years of age samuel summary was the uncontested king of bananas.
the money started out of the docks of mobile alabama ports on the gulf of mexico. he saw the united fruit ships on loading bananas and watch the traders that s where . he learned to spot the fruit no one else wanted the right bananas which once suitable for distant markets. he made a bulk purchase for next to nothing. but he hired a wagon and over the following 3 days journey through this. southern states he sold his entire stock at the railway stations them asked for his 1st trip he had $40.00.