Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
That tariff worked directly against Cuban cane but, much to the chagrin of the sugar beet people, it also benefited Hawaii and Puerto Rico and, after 1913, the Philippines. After the War more and more of U. S. sugar came from the U. S. and its island possessions, less and less came from Cuba. Cuba, who could not sell her products elsewhere, got into much the same sort of trouble as U. S. wheat and cotton producers who lost their foreign markets. To make matters more comfortable for the beet sugar industry the tariff on Cuban sugar was raised...
...left Cuba with a huge sugar surplus, brought her producers such hardships that they sold their product as low as ⅝? a Ib. (in 1932). But even with a 2? a lb. duty the costly beet sugar industry could not make a profit out of 3? sugar. Hawaii. Puerto Rico and the Philippines, well inside the tariff, could. They expanded their output immensely, until beet sugar producers realized that sooner or later the islands would take the U. S. market away from them. Thus while U. S. consumers were paying some $250,000,000 a year extra for sugar...
...Puerto Rico Quota (tons) 821,000 1932-33 (tons...
...content with what was given her. The Philippines, about to be given their freedom, were in more or less the same predicament, but were more liberally treated to induce them to accept freedom. The others began at once to wrangle. Movements for Statehood took life in both Hawaii and Puerto Rico (see p. 14) as one means of 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...