Word: beet-sugar
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...Indonesia, the East Germans finished a sugar mill two years behind schedule only to find that it was a beet-sugar mill and the rollers were not heavy enough to crush Indonesian cane sugar...
...impatient to wait for private enterprise to work its measured miracles, Menderes concurrently embarked on an immense government development program. Without much regard for cost, he opened new coal mines, expanded Turkey's single steel complex, constructed a dozen beet-sugar plants, started work on six huge new dams and threw up 1,250 miles of power lines-nearly seven times as many as there were in all Turkey in 1950. Above all, he concentrated on improving the lot of the peasants. He boosted crop subsidies, imported (with U.S. aid) 40,000 tractors, and between 1950 and 1956 increased...
Last year critics pointed out that Menderes had plunged so heavily on new dams, plus roads, harbors and factories, that Turkey had nothing left over to make the economy run. Prices soared, people went hungry, factories came to a standstill. But dams and beet-sugar factories planted in Turkey's hinterlands meant votes among the farmers, who make up 80% of the electorate, and Menderes hated to give them up. Instead, he hoped for more money-$300 million of it-from the U.S., but did not get it. It took a rebellion in his own party last fall before...
...their $5¼ million, De Bretteville and friends got assets which they estimate at $10 million. Among them: ¶Half-interest in the Spreckels Sugar Co. with its three California beet-sugar plants (including the nation's largest), and its 14,000 acres of land, most of it in the rich Salinas Valley...
...start, President de Bretteville plans to make the Spreckels Sugar Co., which is already the biggest beet-sugar produce? (286,705,000 lbs. in 1948) in California and the fifth biggest in the U.S.,* more efficient. Altogether he is spending $1,800,000 on new equipment, plans to obtain new capital for expansion by making Spreckels Companies a public corporation and issuing stock...