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  A United Fruit Company official looks over looks over the harvested bananas to see which are fit for market in Honduras on Sept. 3, 1954.
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  United Fruit's former headquarters in Costa Rica.
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  A United Fruit worker carrying bananas.
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  Minor Cooper Keith in 1917. He helped to build Costa Rica's railroad infrastructure and created a banana business that would eventually become United Fruit.
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  Workers cut down the stalks of bunches of bananas in the Costa Rican town of Golfito in 1950.
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The banana is a staple of the American diet and has been for generations. But how did this exotic tropical fruit become so commonplace? How one Brooklyn-born entrepreneur ruthlessly created the modern banana industry and the infamous banana republics.

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If you would like to read more on the topic, here's a list:

• Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World by Dan Koeppel
• Keith and Costa Rica: The Biography of Minor Cooper Keith, American Entrepreneur by Watt Steward
• The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen

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