WOMEN'S WHIMS
UPSETTING INDUSTRY CIGARETTE HITS COCOA SILK SUPERSEDES WOOL United Press Association—By Electric Tclograph—Copyright. Australian Tress Association. LONDON, 30th August. How the phenomenal cigarette habit in women has broken up i-hc powerful ! British cocoa pool, which dominated the cocoa situation in tho world, is revealed. Tho crisis is not 'only felt in Europe and America, but in thousands of mitivo .villages on the Gold Coast and elsewhere. Tho authorities in the trade in London assort that women are buying cigarettes instead of chocolates, anil men are presenting eigarottu cabinets in place of chocolate boxes. Practically the entire cocoa industry depends on chocolates. Only an unlikely change in feminine tastes and fashion can avert a crisis. Tho report of the impending break up of the cocoa pool created a sensation on New York Exchange, where prices slumped alarmingly. London experts say a world slump is inevitable. Women's fashions have already shattered fortunes in tho woollen trade and established artificial silk millionaires instead.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 46, 31 August 1928, Page 9
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162WOMEN'S WHIMS Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 46, 31 August 1928, Page 9
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