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Show Americans Great Sugar Consumers The amount of sugar used by tic people of the United Stales during 1924 was 11,2000,000,(100 'pounds or almost 100 pounds for each person in the country, according to figures compiled. com-piled. This includes sugar consume through table use and in manufactured manufac-tured food products such as bread pastry, ice cream, candy, bottled drinks, chewing gum, condensed milk and tobacco. It is the largest quantity ever used by this country in any on: year and is far larger than is consumed con-sumed by any other one nation. Americans, in fact, use about 25 per cent of ail the sugar produced in the world but. the inhabitants of Australia Austral-ia consume a lagrcr quantity per cap- j ita and have done so for many years I Aside from the Australians, however. Americans are entitled to be called the greatest sugar caters in the world I their individual consumption bavin;; j surpassed that of the Danes and the ! British who formerly were ahead oJ I them. j Of the sugar used in the United , ; States last year some 4,500,000,000; I pounds were produced from sugar i beets grown in JO central and western states and from cane raised in Louisiana, Louis-iana, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the hl'ilip-l hl'ilip-l . pines and the Virgin Islands. About ; 0,500,000,000 pounds were imported from Cuba and only 220,000,000 pounds came from all other countries, i The amount paid to Cuban and other foreign growers for the sugar bought j from them during the year was over. |