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With that event, refiner-lobbyists would not be the sole losers. They had only been pulling chestnuts out of the fire. They would drop, at least for the time being, only a small share of their tonnage to island refiners, but U. S. beet and cane growers would be without the extended protection of the expiring Jones-Costigan Act, which has helped keep U. S. sugar more than three times as high as the world market price...
...time Asch reached Salt Lake City, after imbibing with oil drillers in a hotel room and looking over the Colorado sugar beet fields, his insides felt jolted loose and he was beginning to have nightmares in which he saw himself being mangled in a nation-wide traffic smashup...
Sugar's trouble dates back to the World War, when beet production in Europe was severely disrupted. At that time cane producers who are sellers on the world market in London, particularly Java and Cuba, increased acreages mightily. The War over, European beet growers so sprouted behind tariff fences that by 1929 the continental sugar output topped 1913-14 production by 500,000 tons, the world market was glutted...
...turning around furiously, "Hush up! You couldn't do as well as he!" Other statesmen's wives seated nearby joined verbal battle with such vim that the Chamber entirely dropped work, amused Deputies had eyes only for Herriot's box, the Premier's wife flushed beet red realizing that she had perhaps not behaved quite as the Premier's wife should, and devoted M. Blum hastily rushed upstairs to soothe her and calm the angry boxful with his suave tact...
Sugar is now a well-regimented industry. The Secretary of Agriculture sets quotas on all imports and also on domestic production of both cane and beet sugar...