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...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...
...lengthy negotiations, the U.S. bought the 1946 Cuban crop for $3.67½ per 100 Ibs. f.o.b. Cuba, instead of for the $3.10 it paid last year. Cuba wanted the U.S. to sign a contract for ten years (TIME, Jan. 28). But the U.S., mindful of the potent domestic sugar-beet lobby, signed for only...
...American "interests" being what they are, it is surprising that the Farm Bloc in the U. S. House of Representatives allowed even an eight year moratorium on the highly restrictive sugar tariff. For the sugar-beet people, wary of potential competition, have always been hard-headed about Philippine independence and even this short-run freeing of the market is viewed with suspicion from Madison to Butte. The Bell Bill was obviously a compromise, with political altruism knuckling under to politics-as-usual while the wobbly Philippine infant got the economic pins knocked out from under...
...that reciprocal trade agreements are signed with Czechoslovakia that put Czech shoes in competition with Massachusetts shoes, while this same type economic fillip is denied a country linked to the U. S. by tradition and two wars. As the log-rolling proceeds, Congress is unwilling to sour the sugar-beet bloc, but is perfectly willing to pat an infant-nation on the head and set it loose with one foot tied. The Bell Bill tariff exemption must be extended indefinitely lest the Philippine experiment, pride of this country's colonial ventures, backfire into the face of its proud sponsor...
...mindful of sugar production in Hawaii, Puerto Rico-and the potent domestic sugar beet lobby-has balked at giving Cuba a good break. The U.S., too, has a point. It insists that Cuba not capitalize on the war, that its quota remain fixed at the prewar...