Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bowl Games: Cotton (Tues. 1:45 p.m., NBC), Texas Christian v. Syracuse; Sugar (Tues. 2 p.m., ABC), Tennessee v. Baylor; Rose (Tues. 4:45 p.m., NBC), Iowa v. Oregon State...
...such as The Alphabet Song, Counting Song (Cricket), good-neighbor songs, meet-the-orches-tra productions, and stories accompanied by adulterated symphonic scores, e.g., Ludwig Bemelmans' Madeline (RCA Victor). ¶ Special songs, which too often turn out to be inoffensive words set to poverty-stricken pop rhythms, or sugar-coated with a moral, as in Apple on a Stick (moral: share the goodies...
...since World War II has sugar, a traditional war baby, been traded so furiously on the commodity exchange. Future prices for the past several weeks have soared from $3.30 to $5.30 a 100 Ibs., the highest since the Korean war. Last week U.S. sugar refiners in the Northeast boosted their prices for the third time since October, to the highest figure since...
...rise was not all due to the Middle East war scare. In the past few years the Cuban sugar surplus has dropped from 2,000,000 to less than 1,000,000 tons, and production has gone down in many sugar-producing countries. In a move to check the price rise, the Department of Agriculture last week increased the 1956 import quota for the eighth time this year...
...Dandy . . . In Klamath Falls, Ore., when prisoners sent their weekly orders for cigarettes, chocolate bars and magazines to a nearby store, Jailer Fred Calfee intercepted and rejected one list: 5 Ibs. of white rice, 1 large can of pineapple juice, 2 Ibs. of seedless raisins, 10 Ibs. of sugar, 2 cakes of brewer's yeast...