Chartreuse (color) as one of the colors on the Xona.com Color List. Pear is a desaturated chartreuse yellow color that resembles the color of the exterior surface of Anjou or Bartlett pears. Lemon Lime is a fluorescent chartreuse color that refers to a theoretical combination of the two colors of the lemon and lime fruit rinds. Such a name might have been popularized by the advertising of various carbonated soft drinks such as Sprite, 7 Up and Sierra Mist, although all three of these drinks actually appear clear and colorless. Lime is a color that is a representation of the color of
Cuyamel Fruit Company data from 1927 shows that Cuyamel accounted for about 14% of the bananas imported and sold in the United States that year. In 1929, after the October crash of international financial markets, Zemurray sold Cuyamel to United Fruit in exchange for stock and retired. Black Tuesday sent Cuyamel shares into a tailspin, forcing the combination of the two companies (Vaccaro, known by 1929 as the Standard Fruit Company, remained independent). For his sale of the Cuyamel Fruit Company, Zemurray received 300,000 shares of United Fruit, with a market valuation of $31 million, which would be about $420 million today. With