Word: cocoa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After blowing hot and cold for months over a barter deal with Russia-Brazilian cocoa for Russian oil-Brazil decided last week to say no. The backout was a victory for anti-Red advisers of President Juscelino Kubitschek, led by Foreign Minister Francisco Negrão de Lima...
...reverse the animal-vegetable fat ratio while disturbing the eating patterns as little as possible. They did this by: 1) eliminating most of the saturated fat from the diet by cutting out fatty meats, butter, whole milk, cream, most cheeses, egg yolks, oleomargarine, hydrogenated shortenings, coconut and cocoa products; 2) adding cottonseed oil (though soybean, corn or peanut oil would have done as well) to make up the fat deficit...
Tasseled Umbrella. Nkrumah has moved more cautiously, but just as effectively, against the nation's No. 1 chieftain, Otumfuo Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II, the Asantehene or King of the Ashanti. His rich cocoa-growing and gold-mining territory furnishes the bulk of Ghana's revenue, and in the days before independence his well-stuffed treasury financed the political opposition to Nkrumah. But the Asantehene has lost the support of his young men, who prefer modern politicking to ancient tribal loyalties, and is increasingly worried by governmental investigations into the management of land and property under his control...
...Avion!" With its huge exports of cocoa ($30 million a year) and coffee ($60 million), as well as its dense forests, the Ivory Coast is rich by comparison. By sunrise the people of Abidjan are already on their way to work, the men loping along in giant and graceful strides, bantering in a French laced with local slang, e.g., "Avion!" for "Hurry up!", "Japan" for anything shoddy. The symbol of the Coast's progress is the French-financed Felix Houphouet-Boigny Bridge that stretches across the Ebrié Lagoon and supports a four-lane highway and a two-track...
...cereal is next. Are you sure that's oatmeal? Oh, I believe you. No thank you. I'll take Rice Krispies instead. Corn muffin . . . hey, watch it with that butter. You almost hit me. Yes, cocoa, two glasses of orange juice, and melon. What's that? You can't take juice and melon? Oh, I see. "Choice...