1932c *UNITED FRUIT CO.* COVER (POSTED AT SEA) STEAMSHIP SERVICE+SC# 711 STAMP!

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1932 circa. ***SCARCE*** ~UNITED FRUIT COMPANY~ POSTAL COVER "POSTED ON THE HIGH SEAS" ... 6 CENT (RED ORANGE) SCOTT# 711 "GEORGE WASHINGTON" STAMP (READ ABOUT STAMP BELOW) ...(2) "UNITED FRUIT COMPANY S/S ZACAPA STEAMSHIP SERVICE" POSTMARKS!
(Note: The color of this stamp has a "BROWNISH" shade instead of "RED ORANGE". This is called "COLOR CHANGELING" which can occur from: true printing errors, exposed to light, or chemical exposure.)
(Additional note: There was a time when the practice of slitting a stamp in half was permitted (in extreme cases). The majority of the time it was slit diagonally (as with this piece). Thus producing 2 stamps each representing "half" the original face value.) This is called bisect.
RARE Early business, transportation and postal history. This is truly a special piece!
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United Fruit Company
Entrance façade of the old United Fruit Building at 321 St. Charles Avenue,
New Orleans
,
Louisiana
The
United Fruit Company,
now
Chiquita Brands International
, was an American corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas) grown on Latin American plantations and sold in the United States and Europe. The company was formed in 1899, from the merger of
Minor C. Keith
's banana-trading concerns with
Andrew W. Preston
's
Boston Fruit Company
. It flourished in the early and mid-20th century, and it came to control vast territories and transportation networks in Central America, the
Caribbean
coast of
Colombia
and the
West Indies
. Though it competed with the
Standard Fruit Company
(later
Dole Food Company
) for dominance in the international banana trade, it maintained a virtual monopoly in certain regions, some of which came to be called
banana republics
, such as
Costa Rica
,
Honduras
, and
Guatemala
.
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United Fruit had a deep and long-lasting impact on the economic and political development of several Latin American countries. Critics often accused it of exploitative
neocolonialism
, and described it as the archetypal example of the influence of a
multinational corporation
on the internal politics of the banana republics. After a period of financial decline, United Fruit was merged with
Eli M. Black
's AMK in 1970, to become the
United Brands Company
. In 1984,
Carl Lindner, Jr.
transformed United Brands into the present-day
Chiquita Brands International
.
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