Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First Straw. As everyone knows, cane sugar producers in Louisiana must fight diseases, blights. Untiringly, U. S. government experts have sought hardier, sturdier varieties of cane. And last week the Department of Agriculture announced results of an 11,100-mile tour of exploration through Papua and New Guinea, by air plane, canoe, foot. Explorer E. W. Brandes had discovered 167 varieties of sugar cane...
Last Straw. There are two ways of relating supply to demand. One is to cut down the supply. The other is to increase the demand. At the paternal Sugar Institute, last week, plans were on foot to assemble an army of researchers. To their official attention had been called a fact and a question. The fact : Sugar, a hydro carbon (C12H22O11) is the only organic chemical which is manufactured chemically pure on a tonnage basis. Hydrocarbons are easily broken down. Atoms of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, may be taken from them, forming new and different hydrocarbons. Possible uses of sugar...
Appropriately the official attention-caller was revealed as Rudolph Spreckels. As all Californians know, the fame of the sugar family Spreckels rests on sugar pioneering. And the bright, particular fame of Rudolph Spreckels emerged from the succor he gave an ailing sugar business exactly 30 years...
Spreckels. All Californians know the history of the Sugar Family Spreckels. Father Claus, immigrant grocery boy, had left Germany in 1848 to avoid the revolutionary fighting. By 1856, Father Claus had imported a German bride and settled in San Francisco. From this time on, he lived in a state of perpetual warfare...
...became first brewer, then sugar refiner. Then, as now, American Sugar Refining Co. was the chief unit in the industry. Father Claus drew a line around the Pacific Coast territory, told the sugar trust that the coast belonged to Spreckels. When the enemy ventured across the line, Father Claus decided on an object lesson. He invaded the East, built the world's largest sugar refinery at Philadelphia, brought the trust to terms, sold the refinery for $7,000,000. American Sugar Refining Co. stayed away from the Pacific coast...