Word: canings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political reasons, the U.S. relied for about 15% of its sugar supplies on the Philippines, importing them across 7,000 miles of Pacific Ocean rather than across 200 miles from Cuba. For political reasons, the quotas of Hawaii and Puerto Rico, and particularly the quotas of U.S. beet-and cane-sugar producers have been kept high (in relation to their production)-and the quotas of Cuba kept down...
...took Pearl Harbor to persuade the domestic sugar bloc in Congress not to cut 1942 offshore quotas (TIME, Dec. 22), and the sugar bloc is already in full cry again. Domestic beet and cane producers are terrified of more post-war competition, are using the old argument that a war every 20 years proves the need for sugar self-sufficiency, however high the cost...
Butter. The food supply was another source of worry. About 70% of Hawaii's food normally comes from the mainland, ten days' voyage away by freighter. Two years ago, when 241,000 acres of the rich land of the islands were planted in sugar cane, only 695 acres were used for rice, 76 for asparagus, three acres for grapefruit. Since Pearl Harbor, the islands have stored a six months' supply of food in case of siege. But meat is scarce...
Where the slim wahine (Hawaiian women) once strolled along the beach at Waikiki, barbed wire is looped in crazy, glistening coils. Soldiers with naked bayonets patrol the docks. Parks and schoolyards are scarred with fresh-dug trenches. Howitzers hide in the cane fields. Men sleep by their guns on the beach and in caves hollowed out of the mountains...
...Bataan kept watching for him. Once in a while he would come around. Everything about him-the angle of his heavily braided cap, the swing of his brown, curve-handled cane, the uptilt of his long black cigaret holder, the shine on his four stars and brown shoes-everything was always jaunty. The men watched for his smile: they usually...