Show ITS A SWEET LIFE end euld E uld to sugar Shor shortage tae 6 seen CHICAGO with a record crop in prospect both in the united states and cuba assurance that the sugar shortage definitely Is over was given by sugar industry spokesmen housewives now revel ing in adequate sugar supplies for home use and canning were ad that they need not fear a re currence of wartime and postwar shortages private estimates indicated that U S production of beet and cane sugar this year would exceed last year s production by more than tons doubling previous esti mates of the anticipated increase cuba sugar capital of the world will produce a record crop of more than 64 6 4 million tons nearly two million tons larger than the crop last year and one million more than had been expected the spokesmen said despite this outlook tor for sugar supplies observers hesitated to pre diet that industrial sugar rationing would be ended before october 31 as scheduled under existing legisla tion they explained that the beet crop prop would not be harvested until this fall meanwhile the united states will obtain its sugar from trad dional suppliers like cuba ha wait wall puerto rico and the virgin islands the philippine islands which tor for merly sent this country nearly one million tons of sugar annually will send none this year because their sugar production has not recovered from the devastation of the japa nese military occupation the estimated increase in sugar production in the united states would place the 1947 crop at 2 2 million tons of which about 17 1 7 mil roll lion would be beet sugar and the remaining cane last year this country produced 1 76 million tons of both beet and cane sugar which was about tons below an average crop with supplies of cane and beet sugar now adequate to supply all demands by housewives demands for other sweeteners are expected to decline these sweeteners many of which were used in war time as substitutes for sugar include corn sugar and maple sugar and honey cane and molasses |