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...property to which the University has fallen heir consists of he income from several corporations controlled by Mr. Ward. The University is now the virtual owner of the Ideal Cocoa and Chocolate Corporation and the Lister and Gum Corporation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WARD BEQUEST CAN BE ADMINISTERED EASILY | 3/28/1925 | See Source »

Gold Coast Colony. Four days will be spent here, during which time the Prince will admire and possibly nibble, cocoa and kola nuts. He will pry into the gold, cocoa and palm oil industries and possibly will penetrate the hinterland jungles for a brief spell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Prince's Trip | 3/23/1925 | See Source »

...segregated history, had attained an astonishing civilization which was almost an exact facsimile of that from which they had been marooned in 1851. Miss Smith, an extraordinary old woman, usually drunk, had come to believe that she was herself Queen Victoria. She called her palace Balmoral. Antimacassars covered every cocoa-nut-cloth chairback. On the trees about the premises were graven such verses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marooned | 2/9/1925 | See Source »

...laughing matter. It called a legislator away from a session in Congress and sent him post-haste to Cocoa, Fla. And yet his colleagues took the incident lightly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Simians | 5/26/1924 | See Source »

...budget abolishes, from Aug. 1, the 33⅓% duty levied by Chancellor McKenna during the War upon foreign automobiles, films, motorcycles, clocks and musical instruments. The so-called breakfast taxes on sugar, tea, coffee, cocoa, chicory are cut by one-half to one-third. The tariff on dried fruits will be dropped on Aug. 1. The inhabited house duty is to be repealed. Amusement taxes are abolished for the cheaper seats in theatres, etc., and reduced for the more expensive seats. The corporation profits tax is to be abolished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Labor's Budget | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

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