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...countries where it is produced. Of the remaining 14 million tons, more than 8,000,000 tons will be sold to nations with quota systems similar to the U.S. The remaining 6,000,000 tons, which sells at the world market price, is largely surplus sugar. Says Boyd MacNaughton, president of C. Brewer & Co. Ltd., Hawaii's second largest sugar company: "The so-called 'world market' is a dumping ground for surplus sugar that doesn't have a home...
...Sugarman Boyd MacNaughton...
While per-capita sugar consumption in developed countries has leveled off or even declined, it is soaring in the rapidly developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. This trend was first spotted two years ago by President Boyd MacNaughton, 51, of Hawaii's second largest sugar company, C. Brewer & Co., Ltd., which arranged to design and operate a 25,000-acre sugar plantation for Iran. Said MacNaughton: "If we want to grow and expand in the sugar business, we have to do it outside Hawaii and the U.S." Into the Sudan. Both Sugar International and Brewer are seeking...
Portland's Ernest Boyd MacNaughton was a man of many affairs: president of the daily Oregonian, chairman of the board of Portland's First National Bank, lay moderator of the American Unitarian Association. When he took over the presidency of Reed College in 1948, he firmly announced that he would serve only pro tempore. "I am a businessman," said he. "Any time you find an academic man qualified, I'll step aside." Last week, at a sprightly 71, "Mr. Mac" did step aside. The academic man who takes his place: Duncan Smith Ballantine, 40, associate professor...
...with handlebar mustaches to tell them that the penalties for their decision might include having to pay their own way home, to pay for the transport of a new crew from Britain to Japan and to pay the cost of delaying the ship at Yokohama. Said Electrician D. G. MacNaughton: "We'd sooner take the penalties than help the Reds...