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...Five hundred Mexicans arrived in Stockton, Calif., to help save the sugar-beet crop. They entered the U.S. under agreement with Mexico which, remembering that thousands of Mexican laborers were stranded in the U.S. after World War I, insisted on stiff wage and work guarantees for the emigrants...
...California's rich valleys beet fields were plowed under and 4,000,000 pounds of sugar were lost every day for lack of workers. Growers begged for 30,000 extra men-cityfolk, school children, convicts, soldiers-to save grapes, pears and peaches from rotting...
...sugar-beet crop is expected to be bumper; more sugar has been imported from Hawaii than was thought possible; huge crops are also available in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Sugar men are having trouble storing extra sugar. Surpluses are stacked up out of doors, in vacant lots, under canvas, in danger of ruin. A large Gulf Coast refinery had to refuse a sugar shipment for lack of storage space. Sales for household canning have fallen below expectations -housewives loathe the red tape involved...
...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...
Maybe they will get it. According to the Agricultural Department's own figures, there were 2,137,000 tons of sugar in the U.S. at year's end. Since then imports (mostly Cuba and Hawaii) have totaled 1,200,000 tons. Domestic cane and beet output runs over 2,000,000 tons a year. Each week, even now, from 60-70,000 tons are imported. Besides, Cuba is nervously holding 3,000,000-plus tons only 200 miles from Florida and the waiting railroads; Puerto Rico has up to 1,000,000 tons more. Normal U.S. consumption, meantime...