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The New York City fruit vendor who sold an ordinary banana that was duct-taped to a gallery wall inside Sotheby’s and sold for a whopping $6.2 million was devastated to learn that he was made ...
“I got 35 cents. The other guy got $6 million."
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.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created in the 1860s. By the 1890s, the USDA was beginning to become involved in livestock inspections. [5] In 1905, the U.S. government had a call to action when Upton Sinclair polemic [6] against unsanitary working conditions at the expansive Chicago stockyards was published as a magazine serial.
"Mush-fakers" and ginger-beer makers at Clapham Common, 1877 by John Thomson. A costermonger, coster, or costard is a street seller of fruit and vegetables in British towns. . The term is derived from the words costard (a medieval variety of apple) [1] and monger (seller), and later came to be used to describe hawkers in general
Tcher on WoW LJ comes through with an interesting change in the Wrath beta: mounts are now usable throughout Booty Bay. Personally, I've never had a problem navigating around there without a mount ...
In commercials from 1967, the 1970s, and the 1980s, the Trix Rabbit disguised himself to get the cereal, employing costumes as diverse as a balloon vendor, a painter and an American Indian. One alternate slogan for the cereal was, "Oranges, Lemons, and Grapes I see; the fruit taste of Trix is all for me!".
The Coster's Mansion, 1899 sheet music. A costermonger was a street seller of fruit and vegetables. The term, which derived from the words costard (a type of apple) [9] and monger, i.e. "seller", came to be particularly associated with the "barrow boys" of London who would sell their produce from a wheelbarrow or wheeled market stall.