Word: sugarmen
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...other nations to join with the U. S. in signing a pact controlling world sugar production for five years (TIME, May 10). Last week the U.S. Senate ratified the pact and simultaneously the Agricultural Adjustment Administration announced 1938 quotas for U. S. sugar imports and production. U. S. sugarmen found the former event more pleasing than the latter...
...this sweet confusion there is one thing that makes Mr. Babst fairly boil-importations of refined sugar. Up to about ten years ago, virtually all imports were raw sugar, and Mr. Babst and his fellow sugarmen refined...
...became realistic. Cotton Congressmen were told by their constituents that Philippine coconut oil was a competitor with their cottonseed oil. Manila hemp seemed to be hurting U. S. cordage producers. But the big importation from the Philippines is sugar from sugar cane, and that brought anguished wails from Louisiana sugarmen, howls of positive pain from sugar-beet growers of Colorado, Utah, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Michigan. With independence goes a U. S. duty on Philippine sugar which, unless it is tempered by U. S. Tariff Commission experts now probing the situation in Manila, may prove the Islands' agricultural ruin...
...Defense. When the Government filed its suit, sugarmen were amazed. Their denials of guilt were sweeping, explicit. Much of their defense depended on the events that led to the Institute's founding...
...sugarmen's tempers were short and ruffled. Cut-throat prices, rebates, allowances to favorite customers had demoralized the refiners' business. To make matters worse, there was a steadily smaller consumption, result of a growing public determination to keep down the national waistline...