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...they had just bumped into each other on a sidewalk." But there was no escape. So for the first time ever, Susan told somebody her life story. It was quite a tale. Her mother, she told Slick, had first drunk herself into a stupor with crème de cacao and curaçao, then ran away with a traveling salesman. Thereupon her father began to lose his wits, finally cut his throat with a razor. Her grandfather was popped into a sanatorium for alcoholics; her uncle still languished in the state penitentiary. The relatives who raised Susan were...
Brazil was in a mess. Even before she entered the war, the U-boats had smashed the vital shipping routes along her 4,899-mile coastline. She was starved for imported manufactures. Buyers were scarce for her coffee, cotton, cacao. The Allies were screaming for unheard-of amounts of manganese, rubber, bauxite, mica, other strategic materials...
...Aepyornis egg. Madagascar's four railroads total only 534 miles of track, but there are 16,000 miles of roads passable to automobiles-or armored divisions-in the dry season, which begins next month and lasts until November. The island produces lumber, sugar, coffee, manioc, maize, cacao, vanilla, tobacco. It has some of the world's richest graphite mines. Doubtless the Axis would welcome these trifles in addition to a base dominating the western Indian Ocean...
...South and North American students of greater Boston have answered invitations to Pan-American Society's reception this Sunday in Phillips Brooks House. Among those present will be a number of consuls from below the border, and delegations from Erskine, Radcliffe, Wellesley, Simmons, M.T.I., Wheaton, and B.U. Cafe y cacao will be served in a true spirit of Pan-Americanism, it is reported...
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...