Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed as rare as an Aepyornis egg. Madagascar's four railroads total only 534 miles of track, but there are 16,000 miles of roads passable to automobiles-or armored divisions-in the dry season, which begins next month and lasts until November. The island produces lumber, sugar, coffee, manioc, maize, cacao, vanilla, tobacco. It has some of the world's richest graphite mines. Doubtless the Axis would welcome these trifles in addition to a base dominating the western Indian Ocean...
Before the sugar ration cards are shuffled, it would be wise to see who forced the deal. Although the press has promoted a campaign to point the reproving finger at housewives, a logical examination of sugar consumption unmasks the subterfuge. Had not Leon Henderson's stamp plan already nullified their small hoardings, it could still be shown that every housewife in the land could stock her pantry, fill her attic and basement, and still not equal the consumption of the soft drink, chewing gum, and whiskey industries. Each of them takes an average of a billion tons of sugar...
...major tip-off on the situation came last week when a New York brokerage firm circulated a market letter advising that now is the time to buy the stocks of firms depressed by the sugar shortage. The letter listed as safely stocked: American Chicle, Canada Dry, Coca Cola, Nehi Corporation, Pepsi Cola, and William Wrigley. Of course the patriotic press can scarcely afford to offend these heavy advertisers. Many of them also have close connections with Washington. Coca Cola, for example, can give a tremendous tug to the purse-strings of many southern representatives. Besides using sugar in its extract...
...whiskey industry is in a peculiar position. Although the producers of alcoholic beverages are big sugar consumers, commercial alcohol corporations, like U. S. Industrial Alcohol and Commercial Solvents, are causing the real trouble. These corporations, conveniently represented at Washington by Frazer M. Moffat, formerly of U. S. Industrial Alcohol, and now chief of WPB's Alcohol Unit, are trying to monopolize the production of alcohol for explosives. But their plants cannot be adapted for distilling from grains. They use blackstrap sugar, and invert molasses as their raw products. And these maximum sugar demands have caused 1,300,000,000 tons...
Powerful industrial sugar consumers with influence in Washington have brought the nation to the verge of sugar rationing. The hoards of the soft drink, chewing gum, and commercial whiskey industries should be poured on the market before this happens. In sugar rationing, as in automobile production, rubber, and aluminum the business as usual crowd is hard at work losing...