Word: beets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Occupied France, the Germans had a dapper new high executioner, Prince Josias Waldeck-Pyrmont, 45, whose early enthusiasm for Naziism might have been connected with the failure of his inherited sugar-beet and seltzer-water interests to yield him much money. The Prince became one of the Gestapo's chief pre-war agents in France, and his polished manners persuaded many uncouth Nazis not to scratch their heads with their forks. One of his first acts last week was a decree that hereafter French hostages would be carried on German troop trains, to discourage sabotage...
...political reasons, the U.S. relied for about 15% of its sugar supplies on the Philippines, importing them across 7,000 miles of Pacific Ocean rather than across 200 miles from Cuba. For political reasons, the quotas of Hawaii and Puerto Rico, and particularly the quotas of U.S. beet-and cane-sugar producers have been kept high (in relation to their production)-and the quotas of Cuba kept down...
...took Pearl Harbor to persuade the domestic sugar bloc in Congress not to cut 1942 offshore quotas (TIME, Dec. 22), and the sugar bloc is already in full cry again. Domestic beet and cane producers are terrified of more post-war competition, are using the old argument that a war every 20 years proves the need for sugar self-sufficiency, however high the cost...
...Failure of American beet sugar crops...
...three concoctions endorsed by Hauser-"Slim" (containing the harmful drugs senna, bladderwrack, buckthorn bark), "Correcol" (consisting of weeds and gum), and Hauser Potassium Broth (a mixture of alfalfa, okra. beet tops, etc.)-were seized and declared by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to be "misbranded and sold under false and fraudulent claims...