Word: cocoa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first glance. The Rainbow Goblins (Thames & Hudson: $24.95), by Ul de Rico, seems to be a cocoa-table book...
...each bar by 14%, so that the price increase on each launchable ounce is 9.3%. That, says Hershey, compares with three price boosts per ounce of bar weight of, respectively, 18.4%, 12.8% and 14.1% in the past two years, the base period for guideline comparisons. Reasons for the hikes: cocoa-bean prices have almost tripled since 1975, while costs have also risen for other ingredients, including (Carter, hear this) peanuts...
Events abroad, also well beyond Carter's control, had conspired to aggravate inflation. OPEC'S quintupling of oil prices inspired the money-poor but materials-rich nations of the Southern Hemisphere to pump up prices for commodities as disparate as copper, tin, rubber, jute, cotton, bauxite, coffee, cocoa, tea, sugar. Instant communications-TV and transistor radios-spread the message of the good life. People in Timbuktu no less than in Toledo demanded more-more than society could reasonably produce. Communication, education and sophistication enabled the world in the 1970s to virtually defeat smallpox-and helped make just about...
...northeast of St. John's, Newfoundland, flying at 15,000 ft. The temperature was down to zero in the gondola, but angora long Johns and a portable heater kept the men from suffering frostbite. Their menus, chosen by their wives, consisted of a breakfast of hot coffee or cocoa with doughnuts and raisins; high-protein sardines and hot dogs later in the day; and plenty of vitamins...
...that trail-blazed black African decolonization 21 years ago has since had an unhappy political record. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's Osagyefo or Redeemer, was deposed by a 1966 military coup because his grandiose economic mismanagement had hobbled the nation with debt at the same time that the world cocoa market slumped. The next civilian government lasted only three years before Prime Minister Kofi Busia was ousted by the army. Last week General Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, 46, who took over in 1972, met a similar fate. Acheampong suddenly resigned from the army and as chairman of the ruling Supreme Military...