Word: ccc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both countries the sugar issue was mixed with political dynamite. The Cuban delegation appointed by Batista had been firmly instructed by the politically potent sugar interests to accept nothing less than 3.25? a Ib. But the CCC, with the powerful U.S. sugar lobby leering over its shoulder, could not offer the Cubans a higher price unless they gave domestic U.S. sugar-growers a price increase. Further, the action might set a precedent: Brazil would want more for its coffee, and other nations, chafing under U.S. ceiling prices on their products, might balk at contracting ahead...
...sugar were down to 680,706 tons v. 1.2 million a year ago. Grocers in the Midwest were hanging out "no sugar" signs. Soon European buyers may re-enter the market, flood Havana with huge orders in competition with the U.S., and bid sugar prices far higher than the CCC offer...
...went on: the late CCC did the boys a great deal of obvious good: it built their muscles, taught them useful trades, order, cleanliness, discipline, respect for law. After the war, why not have a sort of universal military service with CCC vocational training thrown in? Mr. Roosevelt was not crusading. He merely hoped the U.S. would think it over...
...Midwest grain markets' persistent selling of futures forced wheat prices to less than parity despite CCC buying intended to shore up prices in face of the record crop. At week's end wheat was 18? a bushel under the 1944 high, but still 10? higher than last year...
...Clarence E. Pickett and Homer L. Morris in 1934, at Westmoreland, Pa., to give that year's unemployed college students something to do. Since then the idea has been picked up by many schools and other groups. Combining some features of summer camp, settlement house, college and the CCC, work camps teach neighborliness, public service, respect for manual labor, self-government...