Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large Tugwell has shown himself a cautious administrator. Puerto Rico's Legislature appropriated $7,000,000 to carry out Muñoz Marin's (and Tugwell's) pet project of buying up some 200,000 corporate-owned acres of sugar-cane lands, dividing them into tracts of 500 acres or less, then selling them to the hungry, landless jibaros on 40-year terms. So far, not a cent has been spent. Appraisers are still checking over two modest plantations whose owners offered to sell...
...Boston Armenians one day last week got a bright idea for publicizing their suburban grocery stores and doing something about sugar hoarding at the same time. They had already been holding down sugar sales in their four "Star Markets" by requiring $2 worth of grocery purchases for every 2 lb. of sugar.† Now they decided to offer their customers 10? a lb. for the sugar they had been selling at 6½?, ran a newspaper ad (their first) to tell Boston about it. By week's end, they had bought back some 2,200 lb. They had also...
...Sugar ration cards were on Washington presses last week. "Within a few weeks," said Leon Henderson, consumers will be rationed to 50 lb. per person for 1942 (v. last year's consumption, including hoarding, of 74 lb.).* Industrial sugar users will also have to reduce their sugar use by about one third...
...Actually householders will get only about ¾lb. a week, since the 50 lb. includes sugar for hotels, restaurants...
...people of the Sugar Bowl and the oil and sulfur wells, there was little meaning in an article about the influence of Danish Philosopher Spren Kierkegaard and Swiss Theologian Karl Barth on the novels of neurotic Czech Author Franz Kafka. What could the busy people of the Delta make of this stanza by Andrew Chiappe...