Word: beet-sugar
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...Sugar beets were big news last week−;under the heads of science, business and politics. Beets might long ago have supplied the U.S. with all the sugar it needs but for one stubborn fact−sugar-beet seeds grow in clusters. From the clustered seeds grow clustered plants, which must be thinned by hand. The enormous labor required has given the production advantage to sugar cane and made the beet-sugar industry a notoriously uneconomic enterprise, heavily subsidized by low wages and high tariffs. Supporting this $100,000,000 industry has cost the U.S. people about...
...last week put customers back on an easy-payment basis (31 days instead of hard cash), wired buyers to come and get it. California's giant Spreckels Sugar went a step further, cut prices ten points to 5-35? a lb. to lure customers. Finally OPA told Western beet-sugar outfits to stop shipping sugar east. Unofficial reason: the East has enough...
...matches in unoccupied France, LIFE reports in an essay on Vichy this week. Matches came from Scandinavia and the Germans let no more through. Milk, butter and cheese are scarce or nonexistent, for the Germans rule the great northwestern dairy area. No new stores of sugar from the occupied beet-sugar district around Lille are destined for Free France. Free France will eat none of this summer's harvest from the breadbasket of the northern plains. There is still tobacco in the Rhone Valley and Auvergne, but those shops in Provence that still have stocks also have queues outside...
...materiel and men, France lost great wealth and war resources in the north. Calais is a main source of cement. From Calais through Lille to Valenciennes runs France's richest coal belt. Lille makes textiles and chemicals. Mezieres and Valenciennes are important steel towns. France's beet-sugar industry was in the north, and the entire area, with 85 inhabitants per square kilometer (2/5 sq. mi.) was a rich farm area for corn, barley, cattle, horses. The Germans would go methodically about rehabilitating all these resources, "to make the war pay for itself...
Thirty-eight years later the search for oil was renewed in earnest. The War had ended, leaving Europe's battle-torn fields producing only a third of their pre-War yield of beet-sugar. On the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange, Cuban cane-sugar soared from 6 to 22½? per pound...