Word: cocoa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traditional Charming himself. He's best likened to Judy Collins's "Hard Lovin' Loser"--"He's the kind of guy puts on a motorcycle jacket and he weighs about a hundred and five." But like the Loser, he comes through in the end to rebuff Mama's cocoa for the tomboy he loves...
Americans have the long end of trade balances. The Soviets buy such commodities as bananas, coffee and cocoa on which these nations still depend and with which they too often glut Western markets...
...basin of the mighty Niger River, Nigeria's 56 million people had built a sturdy economy and installed an active parliamentary government. Because British colonial law had largely prevented white men from owning land, the enterprise of black traders and businessmen flourished, based on exports of palm oil and cocoa. Four years before independence, drillers discovered deep pools of oil in the Niger Delta?a strike that within ten years made Nigeria the world's 13th largest oil producer. Nature itself, it seemed, was favoring self-rule...
...ailment, physical or mental. There were worm cakes and a highly touted microbe killer ("Will prevent LaGrippe, Catarrh, Consumption, Malaria, Blood Poison, Rheumatism and all disorders of the blood"). There was also an elixir "guaranteed to destroy all desire for liquor" and a magical tonic called "Peruvian wine of cocoa" that was recommended "if you wish to accomplish double the amount of work or have to undergo an unusual amount of hardship." Arsenic wafers were offered to tone up the complexion, and an "electric ring for rheumatism" (85?; goldplated...
...Spain's African crown is Spanish Guinea, which Consists of the verdant, volcanic island of Fernando Poo, a few other smaller islands and the larger, rain-forest mainland province of Rio Muni. Thanks to steady help from Madrid, Fernando Poo boasts bountiful harvests of coffee, bananas and cocoa. It has a model road system, one of Africa's highest rates of primary school attendance (89%) and per capita income ($246)-and probably its biggest leisure class. When the Spanish government gave the island's Bubi tribesmen their own farms, many of the placid, easygoing natives simply leased...