Word: traders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan last week a rowdy, bloody battle broke aboard Authoress Joan Lowell's first literary ship, The Cradle of the Deep (TIME, March 18). The book was published in March by Simon & Schuster, playboys of the publishing world, who in 1927 promoted the bull-elephantine Trader Horn...
...sailors, he has known Cecil Rhodes, Conrad, Sir Alfred Milner. He has circumnavigated Africa 18 times, crossed it four times. He has been shot, cut, thrown overboard and almost hanged. And now, at 63, before he wrote this, his autobiography, he was penniless in Chicago. Compared to good old Trader Horn, his life has been more hazardous and more colorful, his philosophy and whole existence more worth while...
...some 300 pages of simple narrative he tells his tale, with a sincerity and depth of feeling which make the senile ramblings, the studiedly naive wisecracks of Trader Hour seem entirely inconsequential...
...whether you chose to make the comparison or not and even if you haven't read Trader Hour, Captain Dean's tale is one which you shouldn't allow allow yourself to miss...
Food & Drink. Cocoa laymen think of cocoa chiefly as a beverage, imagine that the cocoa business might be expressed largely in terms of cups consumed. To the cocoa trader, however, drinking-cocoa (which he calls cocoa powder) is only a fraction of the industry's products. To him cocoa and chocolate are identical, both proceeding from the same cocoa bean; the entire chocolate-bar business is also a portion of the cocoa industry. The value of the cakes of chocolate made in a year is about three times the value of the cups of cocoa. The bean was originally...