Word: bonbon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Open market sugar is, however, only one bonbon in the box of world consumption, which totals 30,000,000 tons per year. This is because most sugar-producing nations consume their own output. The U. S., for example, exports no domestic sugar, but grows some 6% of the world total and eats 22%, hence has no quota under the International Sugar Pact. It does have production quotas of its own, however, to control its beet sugar producers in the West, its cane sugar production in Louisiana, Florida and island possessions...
Many pieces in the group which are being exhibited are replicas of objects acquired by museums abroad and in America. Among these are copies of a teapot and a water jug, now in the Danish Museum at Copenhagen; of a candle-labrum and bonbon dish, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; two bowls, one in the Detroit Muesum of Art and the other a property of the Germanic Museum itself; and finally, a large bowl in the Mussee des Beaux Arts, Paris...