Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urgent task lies in raising sharply in two or three years the population's supplies of ... meat and meat produce, fish and fish produce, butter, sugar, confectionery, textiles, garments, footwear, crockery, furniture and other cultural and household goods...
...biggest lines of low-calorie foods is made by Mrs. Tillie Lewis' Flo-till Products, Inc. of California (TIME, Nov. 19, 1951). A year ago she brought out a complete line of low-calorie foods sweetened with saccharin and pectin instead of sugar. The products-ten fruits, four salad dressings, three jellies, four puddings, four gelatins, a chocolate topping-did so well (1953 sales are estimated at $8,000,000) that Flotill will soon add a low-calorie liquid sweetener, ketchup, maple syrup and soup...
...such services, Ahmed Abboud has also done himself a few good turns. At 66, he is Egypt's pharaoh of free enterprise, with properties worth (by his estimate) $60 million. He is boss of the nation's largest shipping line (the Khedi-vial Mail Line), monopolizes the sugar-refining, fertilizer and distilling industries, and also owns or controls at least ten of Egypt's most important companies, including real estate, bus line, textile and cotton-trading interests. Altogether, Ab-boud's companies supply Egypt's leading newspapers with 60% of their advertising revenues. Last week...
...Sugar into Alcohol. Shortly before World War II. the French interests who controlled Egypt's sugar-refining business started selling their stock at a high price in the hope of buying it back later at a lower figure. For two years, Abboud quietly bought up all the refinery stock he could lay hands on in the Cairo and Paris exchanges, got a seat on the refinery board and took over the management...
...Abboud spotted another field that would fit nicely with his sugar business: he forced a foreign-owned distillery of industrial alcohol, the only one in Egypt, out of business and set up his own. Other postwar Abboud projects: a $7,400,000, 300,000 tons-a-year nitrate fertilizer plant financed by an Export-Import Bank loan, the first in Egypt, and a half interest in the contracting of a $10 million hydroelectric project on the Nile...