Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your article on Cuba and the sugar industry (TIME, June 15) has done an irreparable injury to her most important industry for years to come...
...Washington pleading for more food for the 1,869,245 Puerto Ricans. Despite the temporary boom caused by military expansion, the island is still desperately poor. Many of its children are underfed, much of its population (31.1%) is illiterate. The wages of the jibaros who work the sugar plantations are woefully low. Both U.S. and native politicos knew that self-government might gladden the hearts of the people but it would not solve their economic woes...
...sugar-beet crop is expected to be bumper; more sugar has been imported from Hawaii than was thought possible; huge crops are also available in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Sugar men are having trouble storing extra sugar. Surpluses are stacked up out of doors, in vacant lots, under canvas, in danger of ruin. A large Gulf Coast refinery had to refuse a sugar shipment for lack of storage space. Sales for household canning have fallen below expectations -housewives loathe the red tape involved...
...thus far OPA stood firm, although conceding that warehouses are full. OPA turned down pleas for sugar allowances beyond ration limits. Behind OPA's stubbornness was fear -fear of shipping losses and of withdrawal of ships from the sugar business for military use. After all, the U.S. imports most (70%) of its sugar, and ships are needed for a second front as well as for imports...
Northbound, the sailing vessels will nibble away at the 4,000,000 tons of sugar awaiting shipment in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, the 330,000 tons of Colombian and Central American coffee normally imported each year by the U.S. At transfer terminals in the Lesser Antilles they may even pick up cargoes brought by convoy from Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, cutting the convoy voyage by as much as half...