Word: blackstrap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Automobiles 25% 25% 10% Beans (lbs.) ½? 3½? ½? Bibles 15% 15% 15% Blackstrap (gal.) 1/6? .03? .03? Boots and Shoes Free 20% 20% Butter (lb.) 8? 14? 14? Cattle (lb.) 2? 2½? 2½? Cement (cwt.) Free 8? 8? Corn (bush.) 15? 25? 25? Corsets 75% 75% 75% Cream (gal.) 20? 48? 56.6? Diamonds (cut) 20% 20% 10% Diamonds (uncut) 10% 10% Free Dolls 7% 90% 70% Dried Apricots (lb.) ½? 2? 6? Dried Cherries (lb.) Free 2? 6? Eggs (doz.) 8? 10? 10? Flaxseed (bush.) 40? 63? 56? Glassware (toilet) Free 50% 82% Gloves...
...secret hearings last week. Before them appeared Congressmen from farm states to state the price (i.e., upward revision on pet commodities) they would demand to support the measure on the House floor. Patiently the committee heard them ask for greater duties on casein, canned tomatoes, potatoes, live cattle, hides, blackstrap, dairy products...
...Blackstrap. The close interrelation of Industry and Husbandry is clearly set up in the case of blackstrap?a by-product of molasses and cane sugar, used chiefly for making industrial alcohol. The present duty on blackstrap is about ¼¢ per gallon. The new duty would average between 1¼¢ and 2¢ per gallon, depending upon the sugar content. Farm groups forced this increase on the Ways & Means Committee by the argument that a higher levy on this imported article would turn the alcohol manufacturers to domestic corn as a base for their product...
...alcohol manufacturers say they have no intention, if raw molasses becomes more costly, of making more alcohol from corn than they now make. Blackstrap is far cheaper than corn. Manufacturers predict they will continue the use of blackstrap, meeting the tariff boost by adding about 5¢ per gallon to the cost of their product. The farmers will pay these additional pennies (which they forced upon themselves) when they paint their barns, buy medicine, put anti-freeze in their cars...
...when, a prohibitive duty is placed on blackstrap, alcohol makers say they will turn then, not to corn but to synthetic alcohol, now developed to a point where only the cheapness of blackstrap delays its perfection...