Word: sugarmen
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...tons, without restriction would reach 4,500,000, perhaps 5,000,000. Yet U. S. sugar men frowned, last week, when the conservative Journal of Commerce (N. Y.) reported the word "determined" as issuing from the Presidential mouth of Cuba's Gen. Gerardo Machado y Morales. Still frowning, sugarmen considered an appeal to Congress to boost tariff rates, another appeal to Cuban producers to conclude a "Gentleman's Agreement...
...would have been permissible for sugarmen to frown, last week, at nearly every piece of news which concerned their industry. Profound is the depression in the sugar business. Raw sugar has fallen from 5.09? a pound in Jan., 1927, to 1.91? last fortnight, the lowest price on record. Over the same period, refined sugar has slipped from 6.36? a pound to 5.10? , last week's figure...