Word: beet-sugar
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...thinking it was foolish to send his cattle to Chicago to be butchered, established Denver's first packing plant (the Western Packing Co.). He got to looking at the vast, empty Colorado prairies. After a visit to Germany, he came back with a sack of beet-sugar seed. The beets flourished on the prairies, and he founded the Great Western Sugar Co. He started building beet-processing plants, got to wondering about the German-made cement. He found that Colorado had the right clays, started the Colorado Portland Cement Co. (now the Ideal Cement...
...reparations removals. Of the state's best enterprises, 310 were packed up and shipped to Russia. But by reassigning idle machines in the dismantled factories, by improvising with hairpins and toothpicks, So dismantled factories are in partial operation again. Although 14 of Saxony's 64 large beet-sugar mills were taken away, the state is producing as much sugar this year as last...
...intentioned promise went sour. The War Shipping Administration promised that more ships would be available to haul sugar into the U.S. from Cuba, where warehouses are bulging with 1,000,000 tons, bought & paid for by the U.S. But the pinch in shipping is still too tight. Furthermore, U.S. beet-sugar growers harvested only 1,100,000 tons this year-more than last year, but still a big 500,000 tons less than the 1942 crop. Also, in 1944 about 900,000 tons of Cuban production were diverted from sugar to high-test molasses for industrial alcohol...
Last week a new development was re ported which may solve the industry's labor problem and make beet-growing selfsupporting: scientists had learned how to get single beet seeds. The American Society of Sugar Beet Technologists' was jubilant. Thanks to the seed-splitting dis covery, beet growing would be largely mechanized in 1944. The beet-sugar pro duction quota had been upped 50%. One big beet man exulted: "The beet-sugar industry will soon compete with sugar cane - without coolie labor!" The man who split the beet seed is Roy Bainer, an agriculture teacher at the University...
This machine failed to set the walnut industry afire, but attracted the attention of the beet-sugar people. The U.S. Beet Sugar Assn. (western processors) put Professor Bainer in charge of a $100,000 study of beet-growing methods...