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Entrance façade of the old United Fruit Building at 321 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana. The United Fruit Company (later the United Brands Company) was an American multinational corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas) grown on Latin American plantations and sold in the United States and Europe.
Sunkist Growers, Incorporated, branded as Sunkist, is an American citrus growers' non-stock membership cooperative composed of over 1,000 members from California and Arizona headquartered in Valencia, California. [ 1] Through 31 offices in the United States and Canada and four offices outside North America, its sales in 1991 totaled $956 million.
The price elasticity of supply ( PES or Es) is a measure used in economics to show the responsiveness, or elasticity, of the quantity supplied of a good or service to a change in its price. Price elasticity of supply, in application, is the percentage change of the quantity supplied resulting from a 1% change in price.
Margins that separate the good from the great and the greats from the legendary. With her third consecutive gold medal achieved at the Paris Games, Belgium’s Nafissatou Thiam now slots into her ...
Five secretaries of state urged Elon Musk to fix his social media platform X’s AI after it allegedly shared false information about the 2024 election.
Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊, Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai), [note 1] short for Manchu Detachment 731 and also known as the Kamo Detachment [3]: 198 and the Ishii Unit, [5] was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War ...
SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Sharon Firisua of the Solomon Islands resembled and acted like a sprinter setting up her starting blocks. The distance runner who was given her country's lone spot in ...
The potato ( / pəˈteɪtoʊ /) is a starchy root vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are tubers of the plant Solanum tuberosum, a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae . Wild potato species can be found from the southern United States to southern Chile.