Word: caning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Much of the U.S. last week was close to a sugar famine. The American Sugar Refining Co., biggest U.S. cane refiner, feared that all of its plants would run out of raw sugar in two weeks...
...Author Waugh lives in an old Gloucestershire manor house with his (second) wife, and four children whom he affects to detest. He is a connoisseur of wines and cigars, wears a bowler, takes the air swinging an old-fashioned cane. He cannot drive a car, shuns the telephone, barely accepts a telegram. Sighs his go-ahead friend Randolph Churchill: "He becomes more old-fashioned . . . every day. His favorite novelist is Trollope. . . . He seeks to live in an oasis...
...sharp nose, a mouse's tail, a mouse's whiskers, and the pleasant shy manner of a mouse. Before he was many days old he was not only looking like a mouse but acting like one, too-wearing a gray hat and carrying a small cane. . . . The doctor was delighted with Stuart and said that it was very unusual for an American family to have a mouse...
...Chandler Laboratories (ice cream mixes, fruit flavors, etc.). Chandler has an annual quota of 23,396 Ibs. of sugar. Yet, charged OPA. it made a deal with four Louisiana sugar refineries (Vermillion Sugar, Abbeville; Erath Sugar, Erath; Ruth Sugars, St. Martinville; D. Moresi's Sons, Jeanerette) to get cane syrup equal to some 40,000,000 Ibs. of sugar, enough to supply U.S. consumers for two weeks...
Chandler argued that syrup is not sugar, thus does not come under rationing. This, it said, was what it had been advised by the law firm of onetime OPA Boss Prentiss M. Brown. OPA brushed this argument aside. It held that cane syrup cannot be used commercially without being purified and crystallized-and crystallized syrup is sugar. The Court agreed, cut off Chandler's syrup supply by a preliminary injunction. Armed with this, OPA is now investigating some 50 refineries in Louisiana, which supplies some 60% of U.S. sugar, and hopes to force syrup makers back to making sugar...