Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cline noticed that the German blockade had not affected the food situation in England and that rationing applied only to sugar, butter, bacon, and ham to prevent a shortage in case of crisis in the future. Plenty of all foods could always be obtained without a ration card in restaurants...
...winter snows; in Texas they were pitching horseshoes, getting ready for the fall roundup, looking over some of the finest Hereford cattle in the world at an exposition in Marfa in the Big Bend country. In Louisiana, where a Caribbean hurricane spread havoc last month, flooding out rice, breaking sugar cane, killing livestock, cotton picking started last week, the sugar mills tuned up, the first of the State's 47 fairs were opening, and at night the levees were studded with the bright fires of fish fries and shrimp boils...
There, too, the farm political scene was more animated than anywhere in the U. S. Governor Sam Jones at the Chicago convention snorted: "I'm 1,000% against Wallace." (Six years ago Henry Wallace said, "Cotton is an efficient industry and so is hog raising. Sugar is an inefficient industry. ... I do not believe Louisiana sugar . . . should be put out of business all at once. That would be hard on human rights. . . ." Four years ago the sugar parish of Assumption voted for Landon.) Scholarly, weather-beaten Planter David Washington Pipes, venerated in the sugar country because he grew...
There are no more matches in unoccupied France, LIFE reports in an essay on Vichy this week. Matches came from Scandinavia and the Germans let no more through. Milk, butter and cheese are scarce or nonexistent, for the Germans rule the great northwestern dairy area. No new stores of sugar from the occupied beet-sugar district around Lille are destined for Free France. Free France will eat none of this summer's harvest from the breadbasket of the northern plains. There is still tobacco in the Rhone Valley and Auvergne, but those shops in Provence that still have stocks...
...McNeill!" McNeill had twice beaten Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm in Europe last year. He had won the French Hard Court Championship, trouncing U. S. Champion Bobby Riggs in straight sets in the final. Twice again this year, McNeill had outplayed Riggs-to win New Orleans' Sugar Bowl tournament and the U. S. Clay Court Championship. No Don Budge, he was nevertheless the most aggressive player U. S. fans had seen since King Don abdicated the amateur title two years...