Competition and Accommodation: the Development of the Windward Islands Banana Export Trade and the Problems of Caribbean Rivalry
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, the Windward Islands had exported bananas to Canada, although not to the UK. After the defeat of the Axis Powers in the summer of 1945, despite the Windward Islands not having an established shipping service attempts were made, particularly on Dominica, to resume banana exports. A number of small-scale shipments were made between 1945 and 1948, involving companies such as A.C. Shillingford, the Grayson Shipping Line, and the Alcoa Shipping Line (author’s interview; Dominica Tribune, 11 September 1948 and 18 June 1949; West India Committee Circular, July 1948; and CO 852/902/2). However, it was not until 1949, that a regular banana shipping service was established, again solely on the initiative of private interests, which in time led to the establishment of a new source of bananas for the UK.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".