Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Increases were: lumber (20%), coal (40%), petroleum (18%), martensite † (80%), iron ore (112%), copper (60%), manganese (45%), textiles (35%-50%), flax fabric (35%), matches (30%), rolled iron (50%), pig iron (122%), steel (35%), hides (3%), raw sugar (40%), cotton crop (800% within a two-year period...
...program of thirteen numbers and two reminiscences proved much of the same sort as last year's. There was melodrama in "Stenka Razin", high tragedy in "The King Orders the Drums to be Beaten", sentiment in "A Winter Evening", sentimentality in "The Arrival at Bethlehem", sugar-sweet delicacy in many others, and varying degrees of piquancy, satire, burlesque, and buffoonery in the rest. Their were pleasures for all tastes. Color, line, and grace abounded; the characters, whenever there were any, stood out distinctly in the talents of the actors, but best of all were the voices. Whether in verse...
...Warren of Michigan, former Ambassador to Japan and to Mexico, was nominated to succeed Mr. Stone some time ago. The Senate Judiciary Committee considered him critically. Senator Walsh of Montana led the opposition to Mr. Warren, which was based on the charge that Mr. Warren was involved with the sugar trust; that, in 1902, he had purchased for the American Sugar Refining Co. a controlling interest in the stock of a number of Michigan sugar companies; that, until recently, he was President of the Michigan Sugar Co. and of the Toledo Sugar...
Last year proved a profitable one for sugar producers, but not for refiners, who were hit hard in many instances by the wild fluctuations of raw sugar...
...industry, as in government, the old motto "In union there is strength" is popular and sometimes true. American Sugar Refining became interested in acquiring the National Sugar Refining Co. of New Jersey. Unfortunately, politicians had previously made a mare's nest out of the alleged "Sugar Trust," and by a decree in United States vs. American Sugar Refining Co., the matter of future merges of this company had taken on a political and legal aspect. Prior to 1911 American Sugar Refining had owned National Sugar Refining, but was compelled by the courts to dispose of its holdings...