Word: coconut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late John T. Dorrance (Campbell Soup) had a baseball team of marriageable daughters between them. In the competitive spending which the launching of these nine young women entailed, the Dorrance triumph was a "Jungle Ball" in Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford hotel, where the ballroom was realistically decorated with coconut palms, tanks of tropical fish, a menagerie of monkeys, apes, bears, snakes and hundreds of birds singing in cages hung from the ceiling. Utilitarian Geist's big play was a party on his suburban estate, where 20 acres were converted into a "Versailles Garden" with electric stars...
...Congressional sentimentalists have, for the past 37 years, supported the idea of independence for the Philippines. With the recent Hard Times, the issue became realistic. Cotton Congressmen were told by their constituents that Philippine coconut oil was a competitor with their cottonseed oil. Manila hemp seemed to be hurting U. S. cordage producers. But the big importation from the Philippines is sugar from sugar cane, and that brought anguished wails from Louisiana sugarmen, howls of positive pain from sugar-beet growers of Colorado, Utah, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Michigan. With independence goes a U. S. duty on Philippine sugar which, unless...
...Good Humor is a diminutive brick of ice cream coated with chocolate or coconut and frozen onto a stick. It is sold on roadsides in and about New York. Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Miami, Tulsa, Detroit, Newark, Dallas and New Haven by young men with bright smiles. The young men have either neat white trucks or dry-ice boxes...
...reliables hold their places on the counters beside the cash registers: Nestle's almond & milk chocolate bars, Sweets Co. of America's Tootsie Roll, D. L. Clark's Clark Bar (famed in the South and Midwest), Peter Paul, Inc. of Connecticut's Mound (coconut) and Mason, Au & Magenheimer's Peaks and Mason mints. Black Crows is weathering the general slump in licorice which almost no one eats after the age of 12. Remote from the bar ballyhoo are the makers of candy in bulk and in boxes: Chicago's Bunte Bros., E. J. Brach...
...Congress President Roosevelt sent a message urging repeal of the 3? a Ib. tax on coconut oil imposed by the Revenue Act of 1934. Chief points: 1) the tax was a breach of faith because the Philippines had been promised, under the Philippine Independence Act, the right to ship 448,000,000 Ib. of coconut oil into the U. S. duty free; 2) the tax would bring destitution on thousands of Philippine coconut oil workers...