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Kat Eschner. January 18, 2017. Samuel Zemurray was sometimes called "The Banana Man." Pixabay. On this day in 1877, a banana magnate was born. Samuel Zemurray and the Cuyamel Fruit Company...
The banana first reached the Caribbean from Africa via Portuguese ships in the 16th century, but to North Americans it was a fresh new discovery in the late 1800s after Boston sea captain Lorenzo Baker brought it to market in New Jersey.
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Jul 3, 2018 · The earliest instance that I have found is from What the insurgents in Colombia are fighting for, by ‘S. M. B.’, published in The Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago, Illinois) of Sunday 1 st December 1901—the term must have been in relatively common usage at that time, since the author wrote “these “banana republics,” as they are sometimes ...
Aug 12, 2022 · The term originated as a way to describe the experiences of many countries in Central America, whose economies and politics were dominated by U.S.-based banana exporters at the turn of the 20th...
With only $1,500 in working capital, the Zieglers started Banana Republic, a term O. Henry coined in 1904 as slang for a corrupt, politically unstable Latin country. Americans, for whom...
Apr 9, 2023 · One of the earliest steps taken toward the banana republic model of wealth extraction was the first importation of bananas to the US by Lorenzo D. Baker in 1870.
Jun 4, 2020 · In the early nineteen-hundreds, the American writer O. Henry coined the term “banana republic” in a series of short stories, most famously in one about the fictional country of Anchuria. It was...
