Word: canings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yachts. While his interest in sugar may be academic, it has a family base. His brother, W. A. Chadbourne, owns two large plantations in Cuba, has not fared very well. Lawyer Chadbourne is said to have been suggested for the position by Col. John R. Simpson, head of Cuba Cane Products Co., biggest of producers...
...committee, such as those raised by Stuart Chase and F. J. Schlink in their Your Money's Worth and Dr. Wiley in his second last book The History of a Crime Against the Food Law. Specific charges: Fruits are dried by sulfur dioxide; maple sugar often contains 80% cane sugar: prunes often are glazed with glucose, a bacteria breeder: cider is often adulterated with benzoate of soda, as is catsup; jam may be made of low-grade fruit filled with gelatin and water; ice cream is sometimes made of starch and gelatin...
This meant that on the Island of Malta the local parliament ceased to exist last week and Governor Sir John Du Cane began to rule by Royal fiat. In the House of Commons Isaac Foot (Liberal) roused Catholic indignation by observing...
...Sugar Cane...
...complaining as is the custom of newspapermen: "Some business. Work for the Telegram, there's a paper. When you're fifty-five and you've been there twenty years, they give you a week's pay. Bye-bye, little boy, another guy hobbling on a cane in the State institution. Or work for the Sun, that gentle old Y. M. C. A. Smoke a cigaret in the city room and you'll be sleeping on a park bench the same night. Or work for the Post, with the Great White Father of the Curtis publications...