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Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol. 32 No. 4 1918

Sugar Prices and Distribution Under Food Control

Roy G. Blakey

University of Minnesota

Abstract

I. Introductory. Sugar supply and distribution in recent years, 568. — Prospects in Europe and United States in 1914–17, 570. — II. Organization of the Sugar Division of the Food Administration, 573. — Agreements with beet sugar producers, 575. — International Sugar Committee on raw sugar organized, 578. — Margin fixed for refiners, 580. — Cuban price and Louisiana price fixed, 582. — Readjustment of beet prices demanded in the West, 584. — Regulation of dealers' prices and profits, 586. — III. Criticisms of personnel, 588. — How price of sugar was kept low; complication from transportation difficulties, 589. — Conclusions, 589.

DOI
10.2307/1883788
Volume
32
Issue
4
Pages
567
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