Word: sugaring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most of the restaurant and fountain owners in the Square are having difficulty-these days keeping all three of that deflectable trio of sugar, spice and everything nice together and available for their customers because of the current sugar shortage...
Envisioning a sad and sugarless day, proprietors of the local eating-places have removed their sugar bowls from the reach of eager "sweet-thieves" to the safe confines of the counter...
Down at Mike's Club on Mt. Auburn Street, Mike is afraid that his customers may have to start drinking just plain milk instead of his famous "Mike Shakes" if he can't get any sugar. "I'm losing down to the State House to see that to do, because without sugar you can't do business," said Mike...
...nobody has doped out a way to reallocate the jumpy housewife's unmeasured hoard. If she plays squirrel again as she did in 1939 (TIME, Sept. 18, 1939) ration cards will be the only way to keep her calmer neighbor in sugar...
Thus any immediate sugar shortage is self-imposed by panicky housewives and foresighted industrial consumers. Meanwhile the U.S. Government took precautions: > Month ago, 0PM forbade all deliveries to industrial users and wholesalers of any more sugar than each took in the corresponding 1940 period. (This order was the main reason for such retail and industrial rationing as has occurred.) > Last week RFC's Defense Supplies Corp. was all set to sign up with Cuba for the largest sugar order ever: $200,000,000 worth, 3,450,000 tons. This is 80% of Cuba's total 1942 crop...