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Cuyamel Fruit Company,
formerly the Hubbard-Zemurray
Steam Ship Company, was an
American agricultural corporation operating in
Honduras from 1911 until...
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American businessman who made his
fortune in the
banana trade. He
founded the
Cuyamel Fruit Company and
later became president of the
United Fruit Company, the...
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republic phenomenon.
Together with
other American corporations, such as the
Cuyamel Fruit Company, and
leveraging the
power of the U.S. government, the corporations...
- America. In 1930, Sam
Zemurray (nicknamed "Sam the
Banana Man") sold his
Cuyamel Fruit Company to
United Fruit and
retired from the
fruit business. By then...
- in the
vicinity of Omoa and both
banks of the
Cuyamel River. However, in 1910
Samuel Zemurray's
Cuyamel Fruit Company purchased these 5,000 acres, but...
- The
Cuyamel River flows past the city of
Cuyamel,
Honduras and into an off
branch of the
Motagua River that
marks the
boundary between Honduras and Guatemala...
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Salitron Viejo (both now
under the Cajón Dam reservoir),
Selin Farm and
Cuyamel in the
Aguan valley,
Cerro Palenque, Travesia, Curruste, Ticamaya, Despoloncal...
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relationship with US-based
shipper and
railroad entrepreneur Samuel Zemurray's
Cuyamel Fruit Company, and the
construction of the
Interoceanic Railroad between...
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government was the
Vaccaro Brothers Company (Standard
Fruit Company). The
Cuyamel Fruit Company then
followed their lead.
United Fruit Company also contracted...
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three major companies,
Cuyamel Fruit Company,
Standard Fruit and
particularly United Fruit after it
absorbed Cuyamel in 1930. In 1899,
Vaccaro Brothers...
