Bill Sutherland, a Company headquarters lawyer in Boston, on temporary duty in Puerto Armuelles and Panama City, and his wife, Edna Mae, were close friends of ours. We had several common interests, among them pre-Colombian history of Central America and…
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***If you missed the previous installments, click on the links here: 1928: Part 1, 1928: Part 2, 1928: Part 3, 1928: Part 4, 1929:Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10 Regressing a little, Sigatoka (Cercospora musae), a leaf spot disease of bananas,…
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***If you missed the previous installments, click on the links here: 1928: Part 1, 1928: Part 2, 1928: Part 3, 1928: Part 4, 1929:Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9 With a servant and an occasional baby sitter in the house, Harriet and I…
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The lighter-hand system of loading ships was used for about two years until a new wharf and conveyors had been built. All planning and reconstruction work, even down to deep-sea divers, was done by Company personnel – local and transfer…
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In the summer of 1932, with savings of about $300, I went on vacation, flying to Panama City and taking a Company ship from Cristobal, via Kingston, Jamaica, where it loaded bananas, to New York. The ship was filled up…
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Eu senti falta da vida emocionante na fazenda da floresta, mas com a "selva intocada,,en,tão perto da cidade eu ainda poderia desfrutar dos prazeres da natureza com passeios de fim de semana na floresta,,en,Apenas olhando para fora de uma janela do segundo andar sozinha,,en’ so close to town I could still enjoy the pleasures of nature with weekend walks into the forest. Just looking out of a second-story window alone…
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Republic of Panama president, Juan Carlos Varela, visits the first banana fincas in January 2019, which will have production of bananas for Del Monte to export in February. Progress is finally happening! Video courtesy of 100% Porteños Subscribe today to get…
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O presidente Juan Carlos Varela visitou recentemente as fazendas de banana ao norte de Puerto Armuelles,,en,para ver as novas bananas pequenas amadurecendo nas plantas,,en,Eles levam cerca de um mês para amadurecer,,en,então em fevereiro,,en,Del Monte é esperado para exportar os primeiros embarques de bananas de Puerto Armuelles,,en,reativação da indústria da banana em Puerto Armuelles,,en,tem sido um longo tempo vindo,,en,nós estamos vendo progresso sendo feito,,en,Varela inspecionou safras da fazenda Jobito,,en,acompanhado pelos executivos da empresa Banapiña e ministros de Estado,,en,anos as fazendas,,en,atualmente,,en,atingirá,,en,hectares de bananeiras em,,en,gerando sobre,,en,novos empregos diretos e,,en,Estima-se que a empresa invista mais de,,en,milhões de dólares na economia de Puerto durante um período de sete anos,,en,uma subsidiária da Del Monte,,en,tem contratos de sublocação com mais de,,en, to see the new little bananas ripening on the plants. They take about one month to mature, so in February, Del Monte is expected to export the…
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Part 6: Move to Puerto Armuelles By this time Puerto Armuelles had become the division headquarters and, like all company towns, it included most of the amenities for a comfortable home and family life for the employees living there. The…
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Part 5: The Transition in 1929 Just as I was finishing the planting of Guacimo farm in late 1929 the railroad arrived in Esperanza and that was the end of the “good life” on a woodland Farm. ***If you missed…
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