A sugar shortage around 1920 was causing communities around the world to worry about getting enough of the sweet additive. In our part of the world, not enough sugar was arriving from B.C. refineries and in the United States, there were squabbles and scarcity over the purchase of Cuban crops of sugar. "America, in fairness to her own people, should ration sugar," the chairman of the board of the Cuban Sugar Co. told newspapers in June 1920. "No matter how disagreeable it may be to American ideas, it is the only way out of a serious condition, and the government should realize this; America's poor are suffering, for sugar is available only to the rich or the influential." Read More
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Sweet relief from the sugar shortage of the 1920s: Flashback Friday
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