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Mongooses are still a hotly debated subject in Hawaii. Sugar planters, who rejoice in rat-free, ungnawed cane, are pro-mongoose. Sportsmen, who have tried with indifferent success to stock the islands with ground-living game birds, are anti...
...present, the "optical cane" is heavy (9 lbs.) and cannot "see" narrow obstacles such as hanging wires. The Signal Corps intends to iron out all such comparatively minor faults before offering its invention to the blind...
...backing of both peón and porteño. He upped peónes' wages to as much as $30 a month, guaranteed them a two-hour rest after lunch (called the "Siesta of Perón"). Some of the worst-off, like the miserable sugar-cane workers around Tucuman, went...
After a 1,500-mile trek by dog team, Explorer Gould returned to write a book about it (Cold; Harcourt, Brace, 1931; $3.50). As a professor at Carleton for 13 years, Explorer Gould was known not only for his ties but for his bicycle, his cane, his way of poking sly fun at his classes...
Economically, producing sugar is a terrible risk: it requires big capital investment and reaps a microscopic profit margin. This has led to cutthroat competition between the domestic beet bloc and the cane producers in Cuba, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. To protect themselves, the beet men for 25 years operated an intense and effective lobby to get Congress to erect tariff walls and pay subsidies. In 1934 they jammed through a quota system that gave them 25% of the 6,000,000 tons of sugar consumed in the U.S. One of their most cogent arguments for protection: a strong...