Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everything from plowshares to perfume. It owns Salt Lake City's top-rung Hotel Utah and its next-best Temple Square Hotel. It owns one of the city's daily newspapers, the Deseret News, and its biggest transmitter, radio station KSL. The church's Utah Idaho-Sugar Co. operates eight refineries; it owns 14,000 acres of land, buys the sugar-beet crops of private farmers in Utah, Idaho, Washington, Montana...
...flowery speeches, with constant references to the "heart of Perón" and the "heart of Evita." So standard have these phrases become that opposition Cartoonist Tristan draws bejeweled Eva as a blank face with a heart-shaped mouth as her only identification. Last November, when Evita traveled to the sugar-rich Tucumán province, where sugar workers live in abject peonage, seven people were crushed to death in the rush for gifts. Eva was cool through it all. "I bring a message of love," she said, "for the workers of Tucum...
Sweet Plan. Free trading in sugar futures was resumed last week after 5½ years of rigid controls. As traders gathered around the ring in the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange, the House Agriculture Committee approved a new set of controls-but of a very different sort. With a world sugar surplus in the offing, the bill will extend for five years the present sales quota system for all foreign and domestic producers. The bill, which Congress is expected to pass this session, ties the sugar price to the cost of living. As long as the cost-of-living stays...
...More Fight. Before he stepped into the ring against Sugar Ray, Jimmy promised his father that it would be his last fight-unless he won. He wanted enough money to go into business in California, managing and training other fighters. Last week, 17 hours after Champion Robinson flattened him, 22-year-old Jimmy Doyle died of a cerebral hemorrhage, the first death in a championship fight in modern U.S. boxing history...
Next day at the inquest the Cleveland coroner asked Sugar Ray Robinson if he noticed whether Doyle was in trouble during the fight. Said Sugar Ray, giving him the best answer a professional boxer could: "Getting him in trouble is my business as a boxer and a champion...