Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the moment she got off the train in California more than 30 years ago, Lucy Hicks liked Oxnard, and Oxnard liked Lucy. The town was newly rich on sugar beets, and its Chinese and Mexican laborers blew their pay nightly on light ladies, gambling, whiskey and opium. Lucy, a skinny, 6-ft. Kentucky Negro, decided to stay, set out to get a good reputation as a preliminary to getting a bad one. She began cooking for Oxnard's leading families. By the time she opened her first house of prostitution, off Oxnard's crib-bordered China Alley...
...take many months and years to repair France's 1,500,000 destroyed buildings, 2,000 wrecked bridges, 2,400 miles of torn railway, and all the other injuries to docks, fields and plain people. Raw materials and manpower are sorely lacking. The harvest (leading crops : wheat and sugar beets) has suffered from drought and from the thousands of still-buried German land mines. Inflation corrodes all progress and apparently will not be banished until the franc is devalued, a measure from which officialdom shies. But, de spite the vast inertia which grips France's economy...
...getting the backing of both peón and porteño. He upped peónes' wages to as much as $30 a month, guaranteed them a two-hour rest after lunch (called the "Siesta of Perón"). Some of the worst-off, like the miserable sugar-cane workers around Tucuman, went...
Will the U.S. Pay? Exporters estimated that at best it would be 18 months before they would have tobacco to ship abroad in volume; three years for sugar, four to five years for gold. Only hemp and copra can be exported in quantity in the near future...
...industrial problem. Will the U.S. advance funds to shore up the bankrupt Philippine Treasury and grant long-term credits for the purchase of machinery? More important, will Philippine independence, scheduled for June 1, 1946, mean that the U.S. will throw up a tariff wall against the import of sugar, tobacco and other products into the U.S. market? If this happens, many a Filipino businessman feels that reconstruction will be impossible...