Word: beet-sugar
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...River valley's most prosperous farmers, the sugar-beet growers, show little fear. Beet-sugar producers like to boast that they are not directly helped by Washington; in fact, the government restricts imports of raw sugar and provides cheap loans to farmers so they can market their beets when prices are highest. Last month the Government Accounting Office called the program a "cartel" that costs consumers $1.4 billion annually in higher sugar prices. Throughout the spring, officials from American Crystal Sugar, the large local beet cooperative, have made repeated trips to Washington to save some part of "the sugar program...
...jail. A federal judge ruled 2% years ago that the same brothers and five of their children had illegally exceeded the limits on purchases on the nation's soybean market. Bunker also directs first-family control of Hunt International Resources Corp., one of the nation's largest beet-sugar processors and owner of the Shakey's pizza chain. Brother Lamar, owner of the Kansas City Chiefs, is a partner in the first family's petroleum company, Placid Oil. The second family owns Hunt...
...downtown Salt Lake City, 326,500 acres elsewhere, insurance companies with $383 million in assets, the Salt Lake newspaper, eleven radio stations and two TV stations, $36 million in Times-Mirror Co. shares (3% of the total company stock), and controlling interest in a department-store chain and a beet-sugar firm...
...Wage and Price Stability held two days of hearings about sugar prices. The council, which has no authority to order price rollbacks, carefully refrained from fixing blame. But it did present a study made by its staff that concluded that all sections of the sugar industry -cane and beet growers and refiners -have made "very large windfall gains." For example, Amstar Corp., the nation's largest sugar refiner, has recorded a 221% rise in profits so far this year, and Great Western United Corp., the biggest U.S. beet-sugar processor, has raised its profits by a spectacular...
There the deadlock stood - until last week, when Common Market ministers meeting in Brussels finally agreed on a plan that will go into effect in 1968 and pay up to $1.5 billion annually to French wheat growers, Dutch dairy men, Italian fruit and vegetable farmers, and Belgian beet-sugar producers to subsidize their exports. France will collect 40% to 45% of this total. Funds for these payments will be raised in equal parts from duties on farm imports from outside the Common Market and from payments by the treasuries of the Six, in a proportion of 32% from France...