KEITH, MINOR COOPER

1848–1929, American magnate, a founder of the United Fruit Company, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. In the face of incredible hardships he built (1871–90) a railroad from the port of Limón, which he founded on the Caribbean, to San José, capital of Costa Rica. Banana plantations that he started experimentally near Limón in 1873 prospered, and he established the first steamship service to bring these bananas to the United States. He gained control of other plantations in Panama and Colombia and dominated the banana trade. In 1899 he combined his plantation interests with those of the Boston Fruit Company in the West Indies to form the United Fruit Company. He returned to railroad building, organized (1912) the International Railways of Central America, and completed an 800-mi (1,287-km) railway system, but died before realizing his dream of a line from Guatemala to the Panama Canal. His work profoundly altered the economic life of Central American countries.

See W. Stewart, Keith and Costa Rica (1964).

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Old Men Forget: The Autobiography of Duff Cooper (Viscount Norwich)
Book by Duff Cooper; Dutton, 1954
Subjects: Cooper, Duff--Viscount Norwich--1890-1954, Great Britain--Politics And Government--20th Century, Statesmen--Great Britain--Biography
DUFF COOPER OLD MEN FORGET By the same author...MEN FORGET THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DUFF COOPER Viscount Norwich Old men forget...ILLUSTRATIONS DUFF COOPER Frontispiece...
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James Fenimore Cooper: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism
Book by Alan Frank Dyer; Greenwood Press, 1991
Subjects: Cooper, James Fenimore--1789-1851--Bibliography, Historical Fiction, American--History And Criticism--Bibliography
...viewpoint, while Keith Burich 338 and J...Williams 677, 1666 assess Coopers attitudes toward Catholicism...452 and others. The minor roles and poor delineation...444-49. 338. Burich Keith Robert. "The Catholic...Intellectuals: From Cooper to Santayana." Ph.D...
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Small-Town Heroes: Images of Minor League Baseball
Book by Hank Davis; University of Nebraska Press, 2003
Subjects: Minor League Baseball--Canada, Minor League Baseball--United States
...Barrett leads all minor leaguers in stolen...Which gets us back to Keith Kimberlin. In AA...Whether or not Keith Kimberlin can keep...and that includes a minor league team. This...at the moment. Keith just sits there and...signing most of them to minor league contracts...
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Chronicles of Pennsylvania from the English Revolution to the Peace of Aix-La-Chapelle, 1688-1748: By Charles P. Keith - Vol. 1
Book by Charles P. Keith; Patterson and White Co., 1917
Subjects: Pennsylvania--History--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775
...PHILADELPHIA 1917 Copyright 1917 By CHARLES P. KEITH PATTERSON WHITE CO. PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS...these limits in order to treat completely a minor subject which was important or noticeable...supposing that he meant the interpretation in minor details for which he afterwards contended...
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The Quiet Revolution in American Psychoanalysis: Selected Papers of Arnold M. Cooper
Book by Elizabeth L. Auchincloss, Arnold M. Cooper; Brunner-Routledge, 2004
...intellectual figures in the field of psychoanalysis, Arnold M. Cooper. Cooper has addressed every aspect of American psychoanalytic...professional life, the process of change has fascinated Cooper. His own contributions to psychoanalytic clinical theory...
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journal articles on: Keith Minor Cooper  - 134 results

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A System of Demand Equations Satisfying Effectively Global Curvature Conditions
Journal article by Russel J. Cooper, Keith R. Mclaren, Priya Parameswaran; Economic Record, Vol. 70, 1994
Subjects: Demand (Economics)--Models
...together from a number of data sets with minor inconsistencies, and the differences in...symmetry. In Cooper and McLaren (1992), it is shown that the...American Economic Review 65, 367-83. Cooper, R.J. and McLaren, K.R. (1988), Regular...
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Shorter Notices
Journal article by John J. Thompson, Corinne Saunders, Elva Johnston, Ad Putter, Alexandra Gillespie, D.A. Trotter, Jane H.M. Taylor, D.G. Patterson, Brian Powell; Medium Aevum, Vol. 68, 1999
Subjects: A Miracle of Learning: Studies in Manuscripts and Irish Learning: Essays in Honour of William O'Sullivan (Book)--Reviews, Bede on Tobit and on the Canticle of Habakkuk (Book)--Reviews, Books--Reviews, Chanter et dire: etudes sur la litterature du moyen age (Book)--Reviews, Dictionary of Celtic Religion and Culture (Book)--Reviews, Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters: Verfasserlexikon (Book)--Reviews, Early Irish Farming, Early Irish Law Series IV (Book)--Reviews, Early Irish Lyrics (Book)--Reviews, El modelo historiografico alfonsi: una caracterizacion (Book)--Reviews, Encomium Emmae Reginae (Book)--Reviews, Fifteenth-Century Studies, volume 23 (Book)--Reviews, From Circle to Tangle: Space in the Poems of the Pearl Manuscript (Book)--Reviews, Interpreting Nightingales: Gender, Class and Histories (Book)--Reviews, Inventiones: Fiction and Refirentiality in Twelfth-Century English Historical Writing (Book)--Reviews, Iohannis de Caulibus Meditaciones vite Christi olim S. Bonauenturo attributae (Book)--Reviews, Kleines Mittelhochdeutsches Worterbuch (Book)--Reviews, La Vie materielle au moyen age: l'apport des sources litteraires, normatives et de la pratique (Book)--Reviews, Le Purgatoire d'Amours (Book)--Reviews, Le Roman de Troie: extraits du manuscrit Milan (Book)--Reviews, Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies (Book)--Reviews, Medieval Heritage: Essays in Honour of Tadahiro Ikegami (Book)--Reviews, Medieval Liturgy: A Book of Essays (Book)--Reviews, Medievalia et humanistica: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture NS 24: Historical Inquiries (Book)--Reviews, Miscellanea mediaevalia: melanges offerts a Philippe Menard (Book)--Reviews, Monarchia (Book)--Reviews, New Approaches to Medieval Textuality (Book)--Reviews, Poem of the Cid: A Modern Translation with Notes (Book)--Reviews, Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance (Book)--Reviews, Sur le chemin de longue etude ...: actes du colloque d'Orleans, juillet 1995 (Book)--Reviews, The Arthurian Bibliography, III: 1978-1992: Author Listing and Subject Index (Book)--Reviews, The Broken Body: Passion Devotion in Late-Medieval Culture (Book)--Reviews, The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism (Book)--Reviews, The Deeds of God through the Franks: A Translation of Guibert de Nogent's `Cesta Dei per Francos' (Book)--Reviews, The Endless Knot: Essays on OM and Middle English in Honor of Marie Borroff (Book)--Reviews, The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (Book)--Reviews, The Legends of the Saints (Book)--Reviews, The Life of Colum Cille by Manus O'Donnell (Book)--Reviews, The Sixth Century: Production, Distribution and Demand (Book)--Reviews, The Yearbook of Langland Studies 10 (Book)--Reviews, Traductions francaises de `l'Ars minor' de Donat au moyen age (Book)--Reviews, Troilus and Criseyde (Poem)--Reviews, Visions of the Other World in Middle English, Annotated Bibliographies of Old and Middle English Literature III (Book)--Reviews, Writing after Chaucer. Essential Readings in Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century (Book)--Reviews, `A l'heure encore de mon escrire': aspects de la litterature de Bourgogne sous Philippe le Bon et Charles le Temeraire (Book)--Reviews
...1900. Maria Colombo Timelli, Traductions francaises de `lArs minor de Donat au moyen age (XIII.sup.e-XV.sup.e siecles), Publicazioni...and foremost an edition of the many versions of Donatus Ars minor in French. This is itself invaluable, given that several are...
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Yet Another Constitutional Crisis?
Journal article by Keith E. Whittington; William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 43, 2002
Subjects: Constitutional history--Analysis, United States history--Analysis
...political questions and separation of powers); Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.S. 1, 18 (1958) (equal...OF BOOKS, Jan. 14, 1999, at 61. (84.) Keith E. Whittington, "High Crimes" After Clinton...Library, Individual Publications File; Todd Cooper Henry J. Cordes, Electoral College Criticized...
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Separation from a Parent during Childhood and Adult Socioeconomic Attainment
Journal article by Paul R. Amato, Bruce Keith; Social Forces, Vol. 70, 1991
Subjects: Social Problems, Social Service
...Adding marital status to the equation had minor implications for income and occupational...McLanahan ( 1985, 1988 ), Mueller and Cooper ( 1986 ), Shaw ( 1982 ), and Wadsworth...American Journal of Sociology 90 :825-55. Keith, Verna M., and Barbara Finlay. 1988...
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Taking What They Give Us: Explaining the Court's Federalism Offensive
Journal article by Keith E. Whittington; Duke Law Journal, Vol. 51, 2001
Subjects: Constitutional law--Philosophy, Federalism--Laws, regulations, etc., Jurisprudence--Political aspects, United States. Supreme Court--Philosophy
...partisan structure). (81.) See Keith E. Whittington, Dismantling...regarding federalism); Charles J. Cooper, The Demise of Federalism, 20...elaboration of this point, see Keith E. Whittington, Presidential...substantively downsized). KEITH E. WHITTINGTON, Assistant Professor...
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magazine articles on: Keith Minor Cooper  - 13 results

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30 for the Next 30
Magazine article by Sonja Brown Stokely; Black Enterprise, Vol. 31, August 2000
Subjects: African American executives--Conduct of life, Bowser, Yvette Lee--Conduct of life, Cinkscales, Keith--Conduct of life, Rice, J. Donald--Conduct of life, Williams, Chris--Conduct of life, Winters, James--Conduct of life
...former executive director of minor league operations, Solomon...technology-driven New Economy. frank cooper 29, Co-Founder, Urban Box Office (UBO). Cooper is one-third of the trio (which...urban/hip-hop network in March. Coopers ability to help capture a lucrative...
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Banana Split
Magazine article by Carole Douglis; World Watch, Vol. 6, January 1993
Subjects: Costa Rica--Business and industry, Fruit industry--Waste management, Pesticides--Usage, Plantations--Costa Rica, Waste minimization--Environmental aspects
...the banana trade boomed as the Old World transplant became the worlds most widely consumed fruit. The business that Minor Cooper Keith started became the United Fruit Company - still the worlds largest fruit producer - now known as Chiquita Brands...
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Directory of New Music and Instructional Materials
Magazine article; American Music Teacher, Vol. 53, August 2003
Subjects: Instructional materials industry--Product information, Music education--Directories, Music in education--Directories, Musical instruments industry--Product information
...in every major and harmonic minor key in fifteen levels of graduated...Fugues, by J. S. Bach; edited by Keith Snell. This is an economical...151, by Diabelli; edited by Keith Snell. The study of Diabelli...168, by Diabelli; edited by Keith Snell. This edition is appropriate...
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The 50 Most Powerful African Americans in Sports: Think You Know Who the Real Players Are? Forget Those Who Earn Millions on the Field. Here's Our All-Star List of Entrepreneurs and Executives (OK, and a Couple of Athletes) Who Drive the Sports Industry
Magazine article by Alan Hughes; Black Enterprise, Vol. 35, March 2005
Subjects: African Americans--Achievements and awards, Professional sports--Economic aspects, Professional sports--Officials and employees
...influential executives, he oversees Major league operations, minor league operations, international operations, the Major League...revitalized the relationship between Major League Baseball and the minor leagues. In addition to playing football and running track...
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Directory of New Music and Instructional Materials
Magazine article; American Music Teacher, Vol. 52, August 2002
Subjects: Music industry--Directories, Music teachers--Equipment and supplies, Music--Equipment and supplies
...can enter the tutorial section on major, minor diminished and augmented chords, a chord...scales and arpeggios in both major and minor keys, these studies are perfect for developing...outstanding collection include Bourree in E Minor (from Suite in E Minor for Lute) by Bach...
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Highland and Minor Card
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), November 23, 1996
Highland and Minor Card. Former Caledonian...impress Ross County boss Neale Cooper. Meanwhile, Clach are unbeaten...game away to league leaders Keith. Hes spying on Scottish Cup...Academy, Fort William v Forres, Keith v Elgin City, Lossiemouth...
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Brothers Will Fire Up Locos; Highland and Minor Fixtures Highland
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), September 16, 2006
...Fire Up Locos; Highland and Minor Fixtures Highland. INVERURIE...Tennents Scottish Cup. Neale Cooper, Duncan Shearer, Steve Paterson...Mike McKenzie Cove Rangers and Keith both complete the list while...Fraserburgh v Clachnacuddin, Cove v Keith, Nairn C ounty v D everonvale...
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Sub Simon Makes Vale Wail
Newspaper article by Keith Meadows; The Mirror (London, England), December 27, 1997
Sub Simon Makes Vale Wail. by Keith Meadows Stockport 3 Port Vale 0...Travis, a pounds 10,000 capture from Welsh minor soccer, hit his first league goals as a...they came before the break was a Kevin Cooper shot splendidly saved by Paul Musselwhite...
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Armagh Makes Academic Mark; Queen's University of Belfast Graduations
Newspaper article by Heather Greenaway; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), July 5, 1997
...Roisin Patricia McFeely in Politics (Major) and Economics (Minor). Combined Honours Mode - second Class Honours, First Division...Catherine Mary Dixon, Michael Oliver Doherty, Kieran Samuel Fox, Keith Galbraith, Kevin Michael Gerard Hannafin, Eugene Martin Loughran...
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The Public Record
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 1, 2005
...vehicle: case dropped. Keith J. Carlson, 44, 370 Chippewa...case dropped. Dale R. Cooper, 32, 1515 Coloma, Wheaton...consumption of alcohol by a minor: case dropped. Resisting...consumption of alcohol by a minor: guilty; court costs/fines...consumption of alcohol by a minor: guilty; court costs/fines...
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encyclopedia articles on: Keith Minor Cooper  - 3 results

 
 
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Keith, Minor Cooper
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
KEITH, MINOR COOPER 1848 1929, American magnate, a founder of the United Fruit Company...altered the economic life of Central American countries. See W. Stewart, Keith and Costa Rica (1964). ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia...
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Guardia, TomÁs
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Guardia undertook the building of a costly ocean-to-ocean railroad, financed and directed by the United Fruit magnate Minor Cooper Keith . Although basically a military strong man, Guardia is generally credited with having laid the groundwork of Costa...
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Costa Rica
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...dominated the country until the administration of Tomas Guardia (1870 82). In 1874, Minor Cooper Keith founded Limon and introduced banana cultivation. Keith also started the United Fruit Company. Later many tracts had to be abandoned because...


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