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...Supreme Court and won (TIME, April 13, 1936). Shortly after, Jones was indicted for mail fraud. He won again, although the money he spent fighting the two cases drove his company into bankruptcy, left him with a $700,000 debt. Since then, as president of Louisiana's tiny Sugarfield Oil Co. (production: 725 barrels daily), he has been trying to recoup...
Meanwhile, the strike of 28,006 sugarfield workers spread a pall over all commerce, trade and finance. In Hilo (pop. 23,353), drug sales dropped as much as 30%; dry goods, 33%; auto service, 60%. Plantations lost an estimated $21 million of business; workers lost almost $8 million in wages. Acres of unattended cane, which must be irrigated to survive, withered in the hot Hawaiian sunshine, and the world lost 180,850 tons of raw sugar. Estimates of the time it will take to put plantations back on production schedules ran up to four years...
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