Word: cocoa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have never let myself be bored whether it was cocoa planting, boat building, soldiering, or climbing the Himalayas...
...peas, for example, the grocer looks at his wholesale cost, increases it by a fixed percentage taken from an official OPS markup list. The list covers 60% of the products in the nation's $32 billion annual food bill, including butter, baby foods, breakfast cereal, cocoa, coffee etc. Exempt: milk, cream, fresh meat, bread, liquor and 58 other commodities, all of which are still regulated by the Jan. 26 order, as well as fresh fruit & vegetables and sugar, which are not controlled...
...from their peak, and sales were still lagging. Cotton traders, expecting a 16,000,000-bale crop this year (v. 10,000,000 in 1950), drove down the price of cotton for delivery next fall by $10 a bale, or 6%. In other futures markets, grains, sugar, coffee and cocoa were all on the skids; the Dow-Jones index of futures prices dropped to 204.90, off 10 points from its February peak and the lowest level in two months...
...List. This year's new list of Royal Warrants has 1,035 names, including such old ones as Dunhill, Cadbury cocoa and Steinway & Sons pianos and such new ones as Quaker Oats, Kayser hosiery and the West Norfolk Farmers' Manure and Chemical Cooperative...
...17th Century English traders built a fort on the Gold Coast, competed fiercely with Dutch, Danes and Portuguese for slaves and gold. Early in the 19th Century the slave traffic was abolished. Today, in a jungle domain almost as large as Oregon, the leading enterprises are cocoa production, gold and manganese mining...