United Fruit Company <a href="http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/47/043.html" target="_blank">http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/47/043.html</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company</a> Excerpt from Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States covering the period 1945-1960 New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1980 <a href="http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/zinn-chap16.html" target="_blank">http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/zinn-chap16.html</a>