Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week Food Minister John Strachey announced that each Briton could buy an extra 10? worth of meat for Christmas week, over his normal weekly ration of 20? worth. Other Christmas extras: 1½ lbs. of sugar, 4 oz. of candy (normal ration, 4 oz. weekly...
Lesson for Reds. The first results of the new devaluation program looked good. When Italy cut back the value of the lira before (last week was the third time since the liberation), domestic prices went up. Last week, they dropped. In Rome, housewives found that poultry, olive oil and sugar prices were down 20 to 50%; meat which had cost up to 900 lira a week before could be bought for under 500. Farmers, who had refused to sell their products when the lira was becoming more worthless every day, now hastened to unload as it increased in real value...
...Sugar, pineapples and the islands' huge military institutions were still basic industries. But now there were many new small businesses, and organized labor had become a controversial force-Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's Union controlled the waterfront, represented sugar and pineapple workers throughout the islands, claimed 35,000 members...
Sweet News. Decontrol of sugar, only food still under price ceilings, set many a housewife to hoarding against a possible price jump. But the first day of free trading passed without an increase, although the week before some New York grocers had to ration their more apprehensive customers. The Department of Agriculture said there was enough sugar in sight for a per capita consumption of 95 lbs. this year, 21 lbs. more than last year...
Recently the Cori studies merged with those of Houssay. Following up Houssay's discovery that the pituitary is involved in diabetes, the Coris found that a mysterious substance in a pituitary extract seems to regulate the body's absorption of sugar...