Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Voted, That the Steward shall provide at the common Charge only Bread, or Biscuit, and Milk for Breakfast; and if any of the Scholars choose Tea, Coffee, or Chocolate for Breakfast, they shall procure those articles for themselves, and where's the Sugar and Butter to be used with them; and if any of the Scholars choose to have their Milk boiled, or thickened with Flour if it may be had, or with meal, the Showard, having seasonable notice, shall provide it accordingly. And rather, as Salt-Fish alone is, but the afores'd Law appointed for the Dinner...
...both security and commercial markets, one of the least "sweet" commodities just now is sugar. Like other industries artificially expanded during the War, the sugar business, particularly in Cuba, is due for deflation. The "grinding season" in Cuba, when the cane is crushed and the liquors extracted, is now at about its end, and estimates of production can be made. Apparently more cane was handled than ever before, and plantings of the new crop promise to exceed even those of this year. Except for the U. S. beet sugar industry, the same general situation of excessive production exists throughout...
...Sugar refineries have in the meantime been operating practically at capacity, with the result that they have accumulated large stocks of refined sugar. This heavy surplus tends of course to keep prices low for the raw as well as the refined product...
...Sugar consumption, however, is steadily increasing in the U. S. In the eight months ending Aug. 31 about 3,755,000 tons of refined sugar were consumed in the U. S., against 3,540,000 tons for the same eight months of 1924. Actual consumption in 1924 was 4,854,479 tons, while estimated consumption for 1925 is 5,450,000. The year 1922 still holds the record of sugar consumption at 5,092,758 tons...
...followed a young woman up a runway to a diving platform. Below, an announcer was explaining how these Percherons had never been shod with iron to pull men's burdens, but as foals followed their dams over water-drops that grew as they acquired boldness, how lumps of sugar had substituted for whips in their training. On the runway, 60 feet up, the horses whinnied softly, and pushed their noses at electric light bulbs which they mistook for golden pears. A girl touched the leader on the flank. The horse stretched on the runway like a great cat, launched...