Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twelve thousand pairs of eyes stared fascinated when a youthful giant named Jack Torrance from Louisiana State stepped into the shot-put circle. A huge sign hung at one end of the stadium advertising TARZAN AND HIS MATE at the Des Moines Theatre. A hairy-legged Tarzan in his own right, Jack Torrance stands 6 ft. 6 in., weighs 275 lb. All necks craned as he picked up the 16-lb. brass ball, cocked his huge arm, stuck out his big jaw. All mouths gasped as the missile flew brightly into the air, thudded to earth far beyond the last...
Significant fact about the primary was that none of the candidates was Long-backed, all attacking or refusing affiliation with the Kingfish now that his influence as Louisiana boss is on the wane...
...Louisiana and Florida grow sugar cane as do Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. But production in Louisiana and Florida is relatively small and the insular possessions of the U. S. have no vote in Congress. Politically speaking, the U. S. sugar industry is the sugar beet industry in Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, Idaho, Utah, Michigan and California. Sugar beets require an immense amount of hand labor. Therefore beet sugar is more expensive to make than cane sugar. Thirty-seven years ago the beet sugar industry learned how to counteract this disadvantage when it induced Nelson Dingley Jr. of the Ways...
...Louisiana & Florida Quota (tons) 260,000 1932-33 (tons...
...getting a vote in Congress and lobbying for bigger quotas. The beet industry alone was in a position to wrangle at once. When the Jones-Costigan bill was passed by the House three weeks ago, its quota had been raised from 1,450,000 to 1,550,000 tons. Louisiana and Florida were granted the same quota proposed by the President. Only these quotas were fixed in the law. The Secretary of Agriculture was authorized to fix import quotas so as to bring production and imports into balance with consumption. Since the beet industry's quota was raised...