Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accounted for the victory. Five months ago Sam Jones was known only as a moderately prosperous Lake Charles attorney. He comes from that stretch of Southwest Louisiana that is more akin to Texas than to the Old South, where the French-speaking Acadian country of the bayous, live-oaks, sugar & rice plantations, shades off into oil and cattle country...
...food). Everywhere the investigators found squalor, economic decay, unrest. Ruled by professional colonial administrators, with a hierarchy of whites and an exploited mass of blacks, Chinese and East Indian coolies, the West Indies were the victims of unrepresentative government, of the low exchange value of such primary products as sugar, cocoa, bananas...
Mildly booming as a middleman for the warring nations, Italy nevertheless now pays $1.25 per gallon for gasoline. More important, the State-fixed price of bread has been raised from 7.9? to 8.1? per pound; spaghetti from 7? to 8?; olive oil from 49? to 57?per quart; sugar from14½? to 16½? per pound; butter from 42½? to 45?. Rome housewives guessed that living costs have risen 25% since break...
...connecting him with a great sugar swindle...
These red hills, separate and distinct from any other province of Dixie, were uniquely the South of Thomas Jefferson. The cheerful landscape and crisp air of the Piedmont were a world apart from the swampy, dream-like, hunting lowlands of the South Carolins coast, or the immense sugar plantations that lay along the broad Mississippi in Louisiana. In Charleston was concentrated an urbane civilization that drew its lifeblood from rice and cotton. Along the palm-lined Battery strolled such elegant Huguenot grandees as the Manigualts and Ravenels, who every year spent a gay social season in the city, replete with...