Word: cocoa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Great Britain last week extended its monopolistic state-trading system to the peacetime cocoa market. In a White Paper, Britain let it be known that its wartime policy of buying and selling its West Africa cocoa (close to 60% of the world's) would be a permanent practice...
...years great divas have smeared their ample bodies with cocoa-colored grease paint or pancake make-up to sing Aïda, Giuseppe Verdi's Ethiopian princess. This week, an Aïda didn't have to bother. In Mexico City's Opera National the role was sung by Ellabelle Davis, a U.S. Negress...
...June 30 suspension of OPA, the seven-year price rise of this war equalled that of a four-and-a-half year period in the last. Samples of the latest market increases, from another source, show hides up 74 per cent since June 29; shellac up 80 per cent; cocoa beans up 65 per cent; and foodstuffs up 30 per cent...
...will much of the economic life of the Empire grow stronger or weaker. Through more than 400 subsidiaries operating more than 800 factories in 37 countries (notable exception: Soviet Russia), Unilever dominates the world's soap and margarine businesses. It also sells ice cream, baby food, rubber, cocoa, salad oil, lye, paper, candles, copra, perfume, toothpaste, vitamins, fish, silks, cattle cake, fertilizer...
Cruikshank, a Fleet Streeter since his teens, was the News Chronicle's U.S. correspondent for eight prewar years, then returned to edit the Cadburys' evening Star (which, with its morning sister, is known as the "Cocoa Press"). In 1941 Brendan Bracken drafted him to head the American Division of the Ministry of Information...