Fortschritt und Armut

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Identifikator:: 1027863817

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-43741

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: George, Henry http://d-nb.info/gnd/118716948

Title:: Fortschritt und Armut

Edition:: Sechste, unveränderte Auflage

Place of publication:: Jena

Publisher:: Verlag von Gustav Fischer

Year of publication:: 1920

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 407 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Buch I. Arbeitslohn und Kapital

Collection:: Economics Books

364 SELLING LATIN AMERICA large sums in practically all of our sister re„- publics. .With each step in this direction we as a nation, and also our manufacturers and merchants, become more firmly entrenched in the Latin American commercial world, and our mercantile supremacy in these lands is more positively assured. As a typical illustration, of what can be done in these countries when the subject is handled intelligently let me mention the case of the United Fruit Company, which operates in Colombia, Cuba, and practically all of Cen tral America. Starting in 187a with a small beginning, this organization is now one of the most solid to be found anywhere in the world. In Costa Rica alone they have in vested over $19,000,000 in bananas, while enormous sums are also being expended in other countries in sugar, coffee, cocoa, cocoa- nuts, the development of mines and the building of railroads and hotels. In fact the prosperity of all these nations is directly due to the presence of this great organization, which finds a market for its products in Europe

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