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United Fruit Co.  

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  • The United Fruit Company, established in 1899, was a tropical fruit importer based in Boston, Massachusetts. It controlled half the bananas in the world and 75 percent of the American banana market. [Source: Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime; United Fruit Co.]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-M269H5LH-8

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