Word: cocoa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World. Dominicans are prouder than Mexicans of their Spanish blood. Actually over half the population is Mulatto. They pay no taxes. The government struggles along on a 60% tariff on all imports collected for it by a U. S. customs agent, William E. Pullman. Sugar cane, coffee, tobacco, cocoa are their only important crops. World overproduction has ruined all four. A $30,000,000 loss is not a disaster to such a country, it is Calamity. Dominicans wandering in the stench of burning corpses last week took some comfort in the fact that cathedral, palace, fortress, nearly all their oldest...
...Anglo-Indian select committee on dangerous drugs unanimously recommended, last week, that the cultivation of cocoa plants for the manufacture of cocaine be authorized in India, that the sale of this drug should be a state monopoly like opium...
Holland Far-East Tea, Coffee and Cocoa Enterprises, one share of stock, half a pound each of tea, cocoa and coffee...