Word: cocoa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Africa, where the rust has been a problem for many years. Airborne spores have been found 2,000 feet above infected plants. Man himself is probably a carrier. A heavy outbreak in the Brazilian state of Bahia in 1967 may have begun when African delegates to an international cocoa conference inadvertently imported spores on their clothing...
Most of the losses developed from unauthorized speculation in the volatile world cocoa market, which some men associated with the bank reportedly tried to corner. Seven officers of the Basel bank have been arrested on charges of suspected fraud and mismanagement. Among them are Paul Erdman, the vice chairman and the only American in the group, and Alfred Kaltenbach, deputy chairman. Both were officers of the bank before it was bought by United California last year. Until then, it was known as the Salik Bank and had a reputation for involvement in speculative deals...
...group that drank conventional milk-containing sugar and cocoa-and another that had a preparation of cocoa and artificially-sweetened milk showed an insignificant increase in cavaties as compared to the group that drank whole milk...
Dunning discarded the results from the fourth group, which drank a milk preparation containing sugar and an artificial flavoring and coloring which imitated cocoa because they were too varied...