Jake Barfield

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he’d become one of the biggest traffickers in the trade. And he’d done it without having to incur the traditional costs. His fruit was grown for him, harvested, and shipped for free. He was like a bike racer riding in the windbreak of a semitruck—the semitruck being United Fruit.
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
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