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Show HUGE QUANTITIES OF SUGAR EXPORTED WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. In the face of a growing scarcity, more than a billion and a quarter pounds of sugar, valued at nearly $97,000,000, were exported export-ed from the United States during the first ten months of the present year, a department of commerce report issued today shows. Exports, which went largely to the United Kingdom and France, exceed in quantity 339 per cent the amount sent out of the country during the same period pe-riod last year. While this sugar waa being shipped out of the country American importers brought in more than eight and a quarter billion pounds, valued at $4S1,424,000. |