Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrinkling his emotional nose, Columnist Samuel Grafton wrote: "There isn't any meat; that's war. There isn't any curfew; that's peace. The price of steel scrap is going down; that's peace. Try and get sugar; that...
...news. As chairman of a special House food investigating committee, he had roared about the country, blasting the ineptitude and red tape which had given the U.S. its greatest food shortage. Only last week, two days before his appointment, he had released a blistering report on the sugar scandal (see BUSINESS...
...tracked jeeps), U.S. troops wormed gradually around the Japanese defense line in the south. In the east infantrymen captured the seaport village of Yonabaru and swept on in a flanking drive. The Japs withdrew hastily, for the first time abandoning large supply dumps intact. On the west marines secured Sugar Loaf and Half Moon Hills, at week's end held half of Naha...
...Pearl Harbor, the naval air station has an aircraft-engine reconditioning plant on the conveyor-line principle. It is like many another such plant on the mainland, but it is the first and only one in the Pacific. Detroit technology has been transplanted and flourishes amid the pineapple, sugar and coconut plantations...
...Shortages that the last time the production of soft drinks was cut in half (during the depression) more than half the operating plants folded up. Big producers like Coca-Cola Co. (with some 1,200 bottling units), Pepsi-Cola Co., Dr. Pepper Co., etc. may hang on until the sugar shortage eases. But for the smaller companies the outlook is gloomy. A drop in production will wipe out their slim profits...