Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laborer's job in a Montreal furniture factory, yet he thought that everything was just wonderful. He and his wife and two children were able to eat hamburgers again after existing for weeks on spaghetti and oak leaves (oak leaves are good raw, he says, with sugar). Soon he would be able to buy materials to take up art once more...
...small group of Brazilian speculators evidently got the word last December that the Brazilian government was about to boost the support prices from 1,200 to 1,500 cruzeiros ($63.76 to $78.17) a bag, They moved into the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange one day before, came close to cornering the futures market, and in little more than a month sent green coffee prices from...
...York Coffee & Sugar Exchange failed to enforce trading rules, thereby opened the way to price-rigging and bucketing, and even permitted members to act as agents and principals in the same transaction without the customer's knowledge...
...writers may be on vacation too. While Skelton's characterizations of the tramp, Freddie the Freeloader, and the goon, Clem Kiddlehopper, were pretty much up to par on the first program, some of his straight monologue material was merely second-rate. Skelton's first guest was the sugar-coated Pianist Liberace, who 1) mooned interminably through Debussy's Clair de Lune and grinned ecstatically through a Latin rhythm piece, 2) cavorted with Skelton in a dance number, and 3) played straight man when Skelton came to call as a treblesome piano tuner. Item: Liberace, in his famed...
...SUGAR GLUT in the world markets is knocking the props out from under wholesale prices. Bumper crops in Cuba and in other major producing areas sent prices down to 3.05? a pound (v. 1951's high of 8.12?), well under the 3.25? minimum set by the International Sugar Conference...