Word: cocoa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Empress Waizeru Menen of Abyssinia (TIME, Oct. 9) walked into the Mograbi Opera House in Tel-Aviv to witness the performance of Rigoletto by the Palestine Opera Company, she was one and a half hours late and she did not "waddle like an ambulating lump of cocoa butter." Hindered on all sides by thousands who thronged the square in front of the building to see the modern Queen of Sheba, her walk, though slow and halting, was nonetheless queenly. Were she slimmer, eyes on Lenox Avenue would raise a notch as she passed...
...Majesty is chocolate brown and waddles like an ambulating lump of cocoa butter, but fatness is a mark of aristocratic birth in Abyssinia. Mother of six and a voracious reader of Western classics, she heaved herself from a special train onto Jerusalem's railroad station platform while a British band blared "The Lion of the Tribe of Judah is Victor!" -Abyssinia's national anthem. No pagan but a Coptic Christian, Her Majesty had come not only to visit Christian shrines but also to dedicate an Abyssinian Coptic Christian Church. Jerusalem's handful of Abyssinians excitedly waved date...
...worst offenders," said he. ''are not the great billposting concerns, which appreciate that advertising which arouses strong criticism is bad business. . . . The Society has long been gravely concerned by the increasing disfigurement of picturesque country villages and small towns by advertisements of various proprietary articles: tea, cocoa, tobacco, cigarettes, soap, starch, poultry food, dog biscuits and, er- what not, displayed promiscuously on shops and other premises where they are sold. The Society has been endeavoring to find a way of controlling such advertisements without abolishing them, and the Home Office has now sanctioned a new model form...
...colonies are quite capable of becoming a self-contained economic unit. At the Ministry of Commerce in Paris last week, Premier Daladier, a former Colonial Minister himself, sat down with a handful of Cabinet Ministers and the Governors of all French colonies, protectorates and mandated territories to discuss cocoa, mahogany, wine, tea, petroleum, spices, cotton, wool, etc., arrange tentative quotas among the colonies, set up machinery for an official Colonial Conference in Paris, six months hence, after London...
...pound compared to less than 2¾? in February. If his company can make an extra ½? a pound on its annual output of about one billion pounds it will make an extra $5,000,000 profit.* Rubber, sugar, silk, copper, silver, wheat, corn, coffee, meat, hides, wool, cotton, cocoa-each one in a long, long list of commodities last week brought just such startling dreams of profits to manufacturers, traders, producers, to states and to countries in all quarters of the globe...