Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Editor who failed to include Hawaii and Puerto Rico in the U. S., a sharp rebuke. It is quite true that the U.S.collects some $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 more in sugar taxes than it pays out in benefits; true also that the tax of about ½? a lb. is originally paid by processors. But after deducting about $47,000,000 net revenue to the Government from sugar taxes and duty, U. S. consumers pay, according to Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, between $215,000,000 and $250,000,000 extra each year for their sugar (at current prices...
Emerson is to head the division of territories and island possessions, which includes Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, termed Emerson's post the number one position in the administration of overseas dependencies...
Later he was captured, chained to a damp wall in Puerto Cabello Fortress, whence he escaped by swimming through waters thick with sharks...
Sugar. Producers of corn, cotton, wheat, rice, tobacco legally may not receive more than $10,000 a year in benefit payments. Sugar is a special case. Annually 130 Hawaiian and Puerto Rican sugar producers get more than $10,000 in benefits; 31 of them get payments ranging individually from $102,927 to $665,211 a year. Only three U. S. producers get such big subsidies: U. S. Sugar Corp., Clewiston, Fla. got $430,420 in 1937, last year about the same...
Pennypincher Byrd, citing this situation, took a vicious cut at the sugar lobby, moved to apply the general $10,000 limit to sugar producers. Crushed, 46-23, he tried for a $50,000 limit, was crushed again, 37-27. Only argument for the huge subsidies was fuzzy : that Hawaiian & Puerto Rican producers, stripped of their fat subsidies, might get miffed, abandon the control program, ruin small domestic producers; i.e., that benefits must be paid foreign producers to persuade them to let U. S. producers exist. No one could understand this; but the Senate has always understood the sugar lobby...