Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Havana, Cuba...
...sugar-beet crop is expected to be bumper; more sugar has been imported from Hawaii than was thought possible; huge crops are also available in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Sugar men are having trouble storing extra sugar. Surpluses are stacked up out of doors, in vacant lots, under canvas, in danger of ruin. A large Gulf Coast refinery had to refuse a sugar shipment for lack of storage space. Sales for household canning have fallen below expectations -housewives loathe the red tape involved...
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...
...only people really scared by sugar rationing are sugar producers. They fear that rationing may permanently dull the U.S. sweet tooth, seriously curtail the whole sugar industry. Sniffing this Cuba's powerful National Sugar Producers Association this week rushed over to the U.S Ambassador in Havana, asked him to stop the "U.S. campaign against sugar"—pronto...
Even though Cuba is rolling in sugar money, the Good Neighbor Policy goes on pouring U.S. Government funds into Havana. Cuban diplomats are now dickering for the first chunk of a $25,000,000 Export-Import Bank loan granted over a year ago. Eventually Cuba will take up the whole loan, spend the cash for highways, port facilities, sanitation works. Predicted the newspaper Alerta: "A river of money will flow through Cuba...