Word: cocoa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other commodities to share in the jubilation included rubber, coffee, cocoa, wool tops, hides. Sugar failed to advance, however, and hogs continued in a rut. Mid-Continent oil prices rose 15^ a barrel to 85^; in many sections of the country gasoline was upped...
...Familiar to most newsmen but perhaps difficult for laymen to believe is Editor Gauvreau's account of how sensational stories were deliberately cooked up and kept alive by artificial respiration in the dizzy scramble for circulation. Notable was the case of "Uncle Cocoa" Rodgers ("Daddy" Browning) and "Sugar Plum'' McGinnis ("Peaches" Heenan), whose queasy romance and parting were practically engineered in the Comet's editorial rooms. With the eager connivance of the exhibitionist Uncle Cocoa, the Comet's reporters wrote his and his wife's "own stories" of their honeymoon, contrived new bedroom stunts...
...fever of Tabloidia, finds himself too deeply infected. Finally, in an improbable transoceanic telephone conversation with his most loyal reporter who has gone over to the Lantern, he consents to return and succeed his old friend Wayne there. Exultantly cries the reporter: "Sugar Plum is suing Uncle Cocoa and we've got it exclusive. . . . What kind of a head shall we put on it?" To which Editor Peters replies: "Keep it down to seventy-two point, and make room for other news besides Uncle Cocoa. Let's get out a well rounded paper . . . with all the news...
...sugar started its first rally in months. Some $25,000,000 was added to the value of sugar supplies. Along the Gold Coast native farmers gathered in British villages to receive cable despatches which told the glad tidings of what was happening on the New York Cocoa Exchange. Cotton, despite the bearishly small decrease in acreage, rose throughout the world. Textiles rose in the U. S. and on the great Manchester Royal Exchange. In the Chicago wheat-pit, 36 stories under the 40-ft, 15-ton aluminum statue of Ceres which is the Chicago Board of Trade Building...
...Principal Manhattan exchanges: Stock, Curb, Produce, Metal, Rubber, Burlap & Jute, Cocoa, Hide, Coffee & Sugar, Silk, Real Estate...