Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fabled "wealth of the Indies" disappeared with the abolition of slavery and mass production of sugar, and has been replaced by a very unromantic and real complex of problems. The economy of the British West Indies, like almost all of the Caribbean Islands, is a sugar economy...
When Columbus came to these islands in the early sixtenth century, they were virtually uninhabited with the exception of a few hostile stone-age tribes, the Caribs and the Arawaks. So the major part of the Indies' burgeoning population is descended from slaves brought in to work the sugar plantations...
After a long period of stagnation in the first half of this century, conditions have at least not deteriorated under pressure of burgeoning population (over 2% per annum). This is due to a British agreement negotiated at the beginning of the Second World War to purchase all the sugar that the Indies can produce (6% of the world's production) at a price fixed annually which guarantees a "reasonable" return to the planters. Queried on this point, West Indians say that the price of sugar on the world market is almost completely political, e.g. the United States buys sugar from...
Numerous other crops beside sugar are grown in the Indies. Cocoa and citrus are grown; cotton has been grown; but no other crop is able to utilize the combination of cheap and superabundant labor and the tropical climate in so lucrative a way or provide as many jobs. So there seems no so-5The usual picture of the Caribbean features tall drinks, dancing girls, and sandy beaches. This is part of the picture...
...indication that year of publication is 1957, not 1857, is a varying concern seen througout the magazine with man's ability to annihilate himself. Phyllis McGinley puts the sugar-coating of humor on the situation...