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Baron Banana in Puerto Barrios
Beals, Carleton | September 15, 1926 issue

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The article throws light on the unmasked crudities of the feverish race of modern times to wrench forth raw materials. In Puerto Barrios Baron Banana rules supreme; and he rules rough-shod with little regard for the beauty or happiness of his people. Puerto Barrios, boom banana port, epitomizes the haste and bruelty and bleeding rawness of the process. Back in the jungles the drive and jangle of the banana industry shrink in the face of vegetation so vast. The constant nerve-racking struggle to push back the monstrous tangled trees, to clear out the jungles with their reeking perfumes, poisonous insects, dangerous beasts, terrible fevers-this struggle is tragic yet puny in its relative inadequacy.

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FORESTS & forestry; PRIMARY commodities; MINES & mineral resources; RAW materials; PUERTO Barrios (Guatemala); GUATEMALA
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