Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question of sugar controls started another row among Senators already smarting under thousands of whiplash letters from U.S. housewives. Upshot: the Senate voted to end all sugar controls...
...Make Reds. When Chinese rule returned to Formosa (ending Japanese possession since 1895), 64-year-old Chen had seized an opportunity himself. With his Chinese aides and "monopoly police" he took over and expanded the Japanese system of government industrial and trade monopoly (sugar, camphor, tea, paper, chemicals, oil refining, cement). He confiscated some 500 Jap-owned factories and mines, tens of thousands of houses. As the Shanghai newspaper Wen Hui Pao remarked, he ran everything "from the hotel to the night-soil business." The Formosans felt like colonial stepchildren rather than long-lost sons...
...Colonia's soil is the loamy terra roxa (red earth) that Brazilians prize most. After two years' full operation, the farms, for which the Government gives seeds and advice, burgeon with fat crops of rice, 15-ft. corn, sugar cane thick as a truck driver's wrist, beans planted among the corn to keep the ground rich and productive. Says Sayão: "They don't mind planting vegetables, but are horrified at the idea of eating them. 'Makes you sick,' they say." But they are catching on, and on better-balanced diets already...
...most radical of Ayres's ideas is for Vermonters to stop eating their own syrup. He doesn't think they can afford to, not as long as they need the sugar money to buy a new plow point or improve their stock...
Some Vermonters agree that Ayres's ideas might do the state some good. To help make syrup uniform, Ayres invented a combination thermometer-hydrometer. If the syrup is too thin, it will spoil; if too thick, sugar crystallizes. But farmers were more impressed by the way Ayres got around the low OPA price last season. Ayres mixed maple sugar with pecans, sold the confection by mail at a rate of about $15 a gallon...