EACH AMERICAN EATS WEIGHT IN SUGAR
NEW YORK, Sept. IS. The average American cuts nearly his weight in sugar each year. Department of Commerce figures, just issued, reveal that the nation’s per capita consumption is OS pounds. Maryland has the sweetest tooth of all, her individual average being 201 pounds annually, while Arkansas has the lowest of any State, 47 pounds. The United States will eat nearly eleven billion pounds of sugar this year and pay more than half a billion dollars for it. But the national sugar bill is low by comparison with what it may be, according to sugar experts, who are using the Government statistics to support their plea for an immediate revision of the reciprocity treaty between the United States and Cuba.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17918, 24 October 1932, Page 10
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