Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Consumption taxes, at present paid by purchasers of sugar, coffee, tea, spice, candles, soap and sacks, to be abolished, the amount being included in the tariff instead...
...week prior, a subcommittee of the Finance Committee had held sugar hearings to which flocked white men and brown men, businessmen and lawyermen, bearing bulging brief cases and in anything but a sweet humor. William Marion Jardine, Coolidge Secretary of Agriculture, now a lobbyist for the U. S. Beet Sugar Association, opened the argument: "The trouble about Sugar is there is too damned much of it being produced. . . . Give us a duty that will bring six-cent sugar . . . and we'll show you how to produce more sugar...
Rudolph Spreckels, head of Spreckels Sugar Corp., great refiners, had suggested the sliding scale sugar tariff and obtained for it the President's cautious approval. Complex in operation, its purpose would be to stabilize the retail price of sugar at 6? per lb. (present price: 5?). The tariff would run from 1? to 2.4? per lb. As the retail price of sugar went up, the tariff would go down and vice versa...
...housewife's prejudice against beet sugar, her belief that it is inferior to cane, was admitted by Senator Smoot. He narrated: "Once I took a sack of beet sugar to my wife who rejected it, saying she did not like to cook with beet sugar...
Later I took the sack off and gave her the same sugar. I said 'Mama, that's very much better sugar than I first sent, isn't it?' and she said...