Word: cocoa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ersatz Candy. The candymakers (fourth largest U.S. food industry) met in convention last week to moan and groan. Reasons: lost imports from 29 countries; the rationing of sugar and cocoa (which formerly constituted half of $400,000,000 worth of candy sold each year). But the confectioners pushed their product as an important Army food item; and bravely produced new wartime candies, featuring: powdered milk, dried fruit, domestic nuts, shredded and toasted soybeans, corn syrup, sweet potatoes, cereal, cracker meal, cornstarch, gelatin, peanut butter, and three-day-old bread...
...torpedoed Brazilian steamer Olinda went down with 60,000 bags of cocoa. No West African cocoa has arrived in the U.S. since last September. Other arrivals (mostly Brazilian) since Jan. 1 have totaled 202,715 bags, against 886,953 bags during the same period last year...
Commodity brokers had a better time; commodities have less to fear from taxes, more to gain from inflation. All grain futures rose the maximum daily limit; world sugar picked up ten points, cocoa gained 30. After the close traders heard that the Commodity Exchange Administration would freeze wheat, soybean, butter, egg and flaxseed futures at the Monday level...
Trinidad's Anopheles bellator breeds in the water that collects on the air plants growing on the tall immortelle trees which are used to shade the cocoa trees. The way to control malaria in Trinidad, said Dr. Rozeboom, is to cut down the immortelles...
...against it. He was against tobacco, alcohol, coffee, tea, corsets, cocoa, ginger ale, sirloin steak, vaccination, capital punishment, Tammany Hall and artificially flavored lollipops. He could spot a cocoa drinker at 20 paces by the "yellow eyes and degenerate skin." Once he weaned a Sing Sing death-house prisoner from tobacco, several days before execution. During World War I he wired President Wilson that coffee would prevent U.S. soldiers from shooting straight, and ought to be forbidden them...