Word: canings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might be expected. Mists shroud the tops of the 2,000 volcanic crater cones that splotch the group's 2,800 square miles; on all but the shore the climate is humid. The handful of inhabitants, mostly Ecuadorians and Scandinavians, grow coffee and sugar cane, raise cattle on the craters' slopes. In the '30s, the islands became famed in U.S. Sunday supplements because of a bizarre free-love colony founded by a German dentist, which came to an unhappy end with the violent deaths of four members...
...When Otis Town left the Tennessee hills for the Delta, "the richest farming land since the discovery of the Nile Valley" was selling at 90? an acre. Town put every cent he had into 600 acres. Then he cleared the tremendous cane that towered 20 feet above him and walked the cotton seed into the reeking-rich earth. The next spring two Negroes, a man and a woman, shared his cabin, his labor, his prospects. They cleared and planted twice the past year's acreage. Settling up in the fall, Otis skinned the Negro so unmercifully that he drew...
...soft drink business are not far from last year's all-time record, despite sugar rationing and the bottlecap shortage. Atop huge military shipments (all made from unrationed sugar), civilian sales are as big as the 80% sugar ration allows. To stretch sugar supplies, bottlers are using less cane sugar per drink, more dextrose and sorghum...
Maybe they will get it. According to the Agricultural Department's own figures, there were 2,137,000 tons of sugar in the U.S. at year's end. Since then imports (mostly Cuba and Hawaii) have totaled 1,200,000 tons. Domestic cane and beet output runs over 2,000,000 tons a year. Each week, even now, from 60-70,000 tons are imported. Besides, Cuba is nervously holding 3,000,000-plus tons only 200 miles from Florida and the waiting railroads; Puerto Rico has up to 1,000,000 tons more. Normal U.S. consumption, meantime...
...bomber crew forced down on the sea was rescued by tiny aborigines. They took charge of a bombardier from Brawley, Calif., a navigator from Walla Walla, Wash., primitively tended their wounds, fed them coconut and sugar cane until rescue came...