Word: cacao
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Precisely what the 1936-37 shortage will be is anybody's guess. Natives were still busy in Africa last week harvesting the pods of the cacao tree. Shaped like a football and nearly as big, the yellow or red pods are tossed into heaps by the cutters, who return to slice them open, scoop out the cocoa beans and pile them in boxes or wrappings of plantain leaf for a week's fermentation. They are then dried brown, either in kilns or in the sun, and sacked. Many an Accra tribesman has toted two 60 lb. "headloads...
...about Nicaragua where United Fruit's holdings are smallest (some 10,000 acres in bananas on the southeast coast near Bluefields), than he was about such countries as Honduras with 95,300 acres in banana cultiva- tion, Guatemala with 21,442 acres, Costa Rica with 27,228 acres in Cacao. Though the United Fruit had exercised its own form of diplomacy in these countries when civil trouble arose, it was always a com- forting thought to Mr. Cutter to know that U. S. Marines would come if needed. Now would there be no more Marines...
...manufacturers displayed more than 100 products. The other was the Lyons Industrial Fair, with 1,500 exhibitors from 24 countries. Typical of the various groups of exhibits was that of the provision trade whose offerings included wines from France, preserves and pastes from Italy, pork from Czechoslovakia, cacao from Holland, coffee from Brazil, rum from the West Indies...