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Show POTENTAL SUGAR CONSUMPTION ENORMOUS An examination of the statistics of sugar consumption during the past century or more shows that its steady upward progress has been surprisingly little affected by fluctuating conditions of trade and industry. Wars that turned sugar fields into battlefields or interfered with the movement of ocean-borne commerce have been about the only influences strong enough to halt even temporarily the rising demand for sugar. There is no reason to believe that this movement is at an end, or that mankind has lost the desire for more and ever more sugar that has characterized its progress in the scale of civilization. Sugar is a product of civilization just as soap and artificial light. As the hundreds of millions of people in Asia, Europe and Africa secure more of the advantages of civilization it is reasonable to believe that the use of sugar will increase even more rapidly than in the past. |