Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just how wrong was proved fortnight ago when OPA suddenly canceled all outstanding red, blue and sugar stamps (TIME, Jan. 8). This act removed from circulation ten billion red points, 17 billion blue, and sugar stamps worth 250,000 tons. Not to have invalidated them at a time of growing food shortages, said Chester Bowles reflectively, would have been still another error...
They were already making attempts to reclaim their soil. On dry isolated spots farmers hoed sugar beets, tended their barnyard fowl. Plank walks were set on fences above the water. At one place dike workers mended the torn sea wall in the age-old manner. A score of them hauled on the ropes of a leaden pile driver, keeping time to the chant of a greybeard...
...Oregon housewife, holding her temper firmly in check, sent her ration board a restrained greeting: "34 blue stamps, 34 red stamps. 15 Ibs. of sugar invalidated. Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year...
...Continued pinch in sugar, pepper, chocolate...
Meanwhile the storm clouds gathered in the rural sections. Sugar-mill owners said they were unable to operate at a profit, closed their mills. In San Luis 1,000 desperate workers seized the city hall, settled down for a hunger strike to force the Government to open the local mill. Grau had appeased the mill owners with four-year tax exemptions, had threatened to cancel their quotas unless they ground sugar. The mills remained closed. Then Grau cracked a heavier whip. Sugar mills would prepare for production at once, the President ordered, or face confiscation...