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...British-Dutch rubber cartels used to charge for their products. This stickup game is going on . . . at a time when we are . . . straining plenty of nerves, including financial ones, to keep Great Britain from going bankrupt." What had caused the News to sound its A was the price of cocoa. Some U.S. chocolate manufacturers and traders on New York's cocoa exchanges were just...
...price rise in cocoa in recent weeks had outstripped every other commodity. Decontrolled by OPA at 14.95? a pound, December cocoa had soared to 35.45?. Last week, after rising the legal limit each day for seven days, it got to 42.25?. Spot deliveries were quoted at 49?, a whopping 900% above 1939-3 price...
...Under Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew and Admiral William F. Halsey. They will raise $1,000,000 in capital to form the Liberia Co., jointly owned with the Liberian Government. This company, in turn, will form up to 20 different subsidiaries to develop Liberia's iron ore, cocoa, lumber and other resources...
...first ripple to disturb the smooth flow of the tea trade since 1942, when the Japanese overran 35% of the world's sources. Tea still came from India and Ceylon. Though supply was short, the Allies froze prices at the 1942 level (while coffee prices rose 68%, cocoa...
Nowadays, whenever Britain's imperial eye turns south towards Africa, there stands Zik astride a large slice of rich Nigerian cocoa and palm nut holdings, coal and tin and bauxite deposits. Zik has a handhold on a rich chunk of the Empire and he will...