“With intimidating financial resources and shrewd planning, the United Fruit Company thus deployed a platoon of lobbyists and publicists at a cost of over a half million dollars a year to convince Americans that something evil was afoot in guatemala.… — Stephen Schlesinger Copy Share Image
“A much more serious labor dispute was the two-year struggle in the late 1940s between the company and stevedores at Puerto Barrios over the issue of mechanization and a change in company pay policy from hourly to "piece" wages. As… — Stephen Schlesinger Copy Share Image
“With intimidating financial resources and shrewd planning, the United Fruit Company thus deployed a platoon of lobbyists and publicists at a cost of over… — Stephen Schlesinger Copy Share Image
“The view of Central America as a region to be kept "safe" for American corporations was naturally not shared by all the people who… — Stephen Schlesinger Copy Share Image
“A much more serious labor dispute was the two-year struggle in the late 1940s between the company and stevedores at Puerto Barrios over the… — Stephen Schlesinger Copy Share Image
