Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...played a waltz. There was no confusion. The diplomats did not hear a single ribald chuckle of jazz; the charity strutters were not bored by the supplications of fiddle strings. Reporters asked Dr. Heyl questions. Said he: "The partition is made of hair felt, supported by thin boards of sugar-cane fibre, and the musical sounds become tangled and lost in this wilderness of hair and fibre. Hair, fibre and similar pliable substances, we have found, enmesh and deaden sound which would vibrate through the strongest steel...
...industrial alcohol was in the neigh- borhood of 70,000,000 gallons. The production is increasingly competi- tive. The U. S. Industrial Alcohol Co. was responsible for between 25 and 30 million gallons, and National Distillers' Products Corporation for about 7 millions more. On the other hand, several sugar companies have recently entered the business, in order to utilize molasses, a by-product of sugar refining...
...Poppy Juice for Insomnia (Soothers and Soporifics)"; "To Deflate the Ego (Ingredients for a Humble Pie)"; etc. Although the editor offers them half with tongue- in-cheek, there is no reason why his prescriptions should not effect cures quite as marvelous and as numerous as those produced by innocuous sugar pills. Incidentally, his selection of poems is well made although far from exclusively of the best verse. It covers a wide range ?poems from F.P.A., A.E., Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Matthew Arnold, Hilaire Belloc, William Rose Benet, William Blake, Emily Bronte, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, Byron, Lewis Carroll...
...world output of sugar is estimated at 23,233,035 tons-3,418,000 tons over production in the previous year. Cuban output is placed at 5,125,970 tons- an increase of about a million tons over 1923-24. Similarly European output is set at 7,078,000 tons-an increase of about two million tons...
Worst of all, to the sugar trade at least, is the prospect for still further production increases in 1925-26. The present prices, however, are already below cost of production for most Cuban sugar-mills. There is little prospect of an increase in consumption sufficient to absorb the impending surplus...