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Show WHERE ALL THE SUGAR GOES Bakeri and Maker of Candy and Soft Drlnkt Um Vaat Amounta of It Not more than half of the sugar we Americans consume la used In our homes. The rest goes into manufactured manufac-tured products. The estimates of the quantities used In manufacture run this way: Our candy makers alone use more than 850,000 tons, and 130,000 tons more go to sweeten up chocolates and Ice creams. Every year the bakers dip Into the national sugar bowl for well over 45,-000 45,-000 tons for bread, 55,000 tons for crackers and 90,000 tons goes every yeur Into frosting and odds and ends In the bakeries. Fourteen thousand or more soft-drink soft-drink makers hit the nation's sugar bin for at least 130,000 tons for their concoctions and another 100,000 tons goes Into condensed milk. Twenty thousand tons of sugar Is chewed up each year In gum; and less aesthetic jaws worked on another 15,000 tons that goes Into the nation's "eatln' tobacco," this not including about 6,000 tons that goes to smoking tobaccos. The country's pill and potion bill disposes of about 6,000 tons of sugar each year, and the corner druggist us an unknown quantity in filling what the doctor ordered. Even sticky fly paper and roach, ant and rat killers draw from the sugar supply to the tune of hundreds of tons. And nobody knows how much has gone Into bootleg and home-breww Nation's Business. |