Word: riding crop
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...froth from the boiling cocoa pot. But the usual candidates for the role of "titanic forces" are "British interests"-an old bogey of the U. S. cocoa market. Because they are better informed than anyone else on the important West African crop, British traders have been known to take U. S. speculators for a fast ride. Last week cocoa men were passing around a story that United Africa Co. Ltd., greatest single trader and shipper on the British Gold Coast, was depressing the market so that it could buy its beans from the native tribesmen at lower prices...