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...began to consider a bill to end sugar rationing immediately. But the Department of Agriculture has not committed itself on the bill. Its chief concern is to get housewives to buy sugar for canning now so that sugar shipments will not tie up freight cars needed to move the bumper wheat crop later...
Nevertheless, there is more sugar on hand than at any time in the last four years, thanks chiefly to a bumper Cuban crop of 6.1 million tons. In all, the U.S. expects to get 6.8 million tons of sugar, or almost half of this year's total world sugar supply of 15 million tons. The U.S. share is 1.4 million tons more than last year. The supply, enough for 85 to 90 pounds per capita, will still be short of the prewar consumption of 96.5 Ibs., and sugar men think that present demand is enough to push consumption...
...were colliding with their member cars, hopefully set out to popularize tail lights for the man in the street. The lights, two-inch plastic reflectors, come in red, orange or yellow, can be worn on the wrist, on a handbag or pinned to clothing-preferably just above the rear bumper...
...Conference, called by Columbia Daily Spectator editors "solely in the interests of free dissemination of information," drew a bumper crop from Massachusetts to Washington...
...last two weeks, the prices of farm products have declined. With a bumper crop in the offing, the drop may well continue. At best, if the Agriculture Department continues its policy of buying up food to keep it off the market, the support program will, in fact, be doing just what its critics now say it does, keeping prices up. At worst, unless the prices of manufactured goods drop, in line with food, the Government might find itself pouring out millions to support farm prices on a scale so vast as to be unworkable...