Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sudden rise in the price of sugar from 7 to 10 cents a pound has created a great movement of protest throughout the country. Four Federal agencies and one non-partisan political organization have already begun inquiries into the alleged sugar corner, and all expect to find evidence of manipulation through monopoly which will be brought before a Grand Jury. The five agencies investigating the so-called " sugar steal...
...Department of Commerce, which is carrying on a world sugar survey with a view to exposing the methods by which manipulators have been able to make it appear that a sugar shortage exists...
Russia swallowed more socialism than she was able to assimilate in the opinion of more than one critic, and the United States has taken socialistic pills so heavily coated with conservative sugar that their effect has been negligible. It is left for Great Britain to face the question squarely and to thrash out the merits and demerits of socialism in Parliament through a resolution introduced in the House of Commons by Philip Snowden Socialist, calling for government purchase, ownership, and management of all industries...
...assassination of Senor Salvador Segui-nicknamed Noy del Sucre (Lump of Sugar)-a labor leader, and of Francisco Comas, his chief lieutenant, has produced a crisis...
Flax, cotton, sugar beets, and medicinal herbs will be exempt from taxation in order to encourage the planting of these crops...