Word: cocoa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most tenuous connection with Britain; today its fierce "Boer" Nationalists, led by Prime Minister Daniel Malan, cast envious eyes at the unplowed ranges and abundant black labor in the colonies north of the Limpopo River.* In booming West Africa, which produces 45% of the world's cocoa, 8% of its tin, the black man has emerged from the jungle and demands his place...
...wing shot. That afternoon, pulling off his boots, George VI said contentedly to his shooting companions: "It's been a very good day's sport, gentlemen. I will expect you here at 9 o'clock on Thursday." Footman Daniel Long, who took a cup of cocoa to the King at 11 p.m. and found him in bed reading a sportsman's magazine, was the last person to see the King alive...
...head. A pale, slim sublieutenant, sometimes doubled up with pains diagnosed much later as an ulcer, he saw action in the Battle of Jutland, where, as "Mr. Johnston," he was second-in-command of "A" turret aboard H.M.S. Collingwood. "The King," remembered Turret Commander W.E.C. Tait years later, "made cocoa as usual for me and the gun crew during the battle...
...that his world travels and wide experiences would make it difficult to categorize him according to career or life-time activities--the two important factors in his study. Although he is an English subject, Stagg was born in South America and spent his boyhood on his family's Ecuadoran cocoa plantation, second largest in the world. His grandfather had come to South America as a British naval officer who was ordered to protect his expire's interest there after the defeat of Napoleon...
Stagg enlisted as a private in the British Army and received a commission eight months later. After the war, he traveled in India, studying plantation management by living with cocoa and rubber planters. He returned to Ecuador in 1919 to manage his family's plantation. Later he founded the first meat packing business in Ecuador. During the inter-war period, Stagg traveled so frequently that he can boast, "I have never spent more than two consecutive years on the same continent during the past forty years." His travels took him to China, India, Japan, Polynesia, Galapagos Islands, and Europe...