Word: cacao
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last October the federal grand jury in Florida returned a secret indictment against Congressman Michaelson, charging him with illegally importing "six quarts of John Haig whiskey, two quarts of creme de menthe liquor, one quart of taffel Akavait, one quart of creme de cacao, one quart of cherry brandy and one keg of plum Barbaucourt." In November, Congressman Michaelson was elected to the House for the fifth time. Last February he voted for the Five & Ten (Jones) Law as commanded by the Anti-Saloon League. Last week a warrant was out for his arrest on the Florida indictment. Bond...
...booms-during which immense numbers of Brazilians have actually gotten rich quickly-has not stabilized the national character or promoted the development of a pioneer class, so needed to develop Brazil's boundless resources. At first it was too easy to make a fortune out of sugar, then cacao, then cotton, gold, diamonds, rubber. When the rubber boom was raging up and down the Amazon (circa 1900) the rubber taxes collected by the states of Para and Amazonas (see Map) made their capitals, Belem, and Manaos, two of the richest cities of their size in the world...
...principal export, nay the mainstay of Ecuador's economic existence, is cacao (the seeds of which provide cocoa and chocolate), but lately this crop has declined, causing great economic distress. To speak plainly, Ecuador is the most insignificant and poorest of the South American republics. She is supreme only in her production of the finest toquilla-the straw from which so-called Panama hats are woven...