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...Although the big sugar production of Java, the Philippines and Europe's sugar-beet fields was in enemy hands, in 1943 the U.S. made Cuba agree to cut its sugar crop (because of a temporary shipping shortage...
...President coolly announced the appointment only 24 hours after beet-nosed Mr. McKellar and his Tennessee colleague, Senator Tom Stewart, had called at the White House to try to head it off. Said McKellar: "We protested with all the vigor and zeal we have...
WTAG was Russian virtually all day, all week. Its 37 musical programs concentrated on Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Moussorgsky, Shostakovich and Prokofiev. Women listening to the Modern Kitchen program jotted down new recipes for beef a la Strogonov, flounder grecheski, pickled herring, borsch, and honey beet jam.* Speakers on WTAG's weekly Forum broadcast from Clark University were Russian Vice-Consul Stepan Z. Apresian and Cornell University's Professor of Russian Literature Ernest J. Simmons. The one radio stunt of the week that didn't come off was an address by Moscow Novelist S. Sergeyev-Tsensky...
...newest substitute for blood plasma is made from beets. Dextran, reported last week by Professor Arne Tiselius of Sweden's Institute of Physical Chemistry, is a white, jellylike substance which results when the bacteria Leuconostoc mesenteroides lives in beet sugar (it has long been a plague of sugar factories because it clogs up the pipes...
...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...