Show ITS A S SWEET IVE ef T LIT LIFE ef i H i t end to t 0 smi sugar LIL rai sha shortage btag seen AA CHICAGO with a record crop in prospect both in the united states and cuba assurance that the sugar shortage definitely is ii over was given by sugar industry spokesmen housewives now revel ing in adequate sugar supplies for home homa use and canning were advised that tha they need not tear fear a re ra currence of wartime and postwar shortages private estimates indicated that U S production olbert at beet and cane sugar tills this your year would exceed last years production by more than tons doubling previous estl esti mates of the anticipated increase cuba sugar capital of the world will produce a record crop of more than 64 million tons nearly two million tons larger than the crop last year end and one million more than had been expected the spokesmen said despite this outlook for suga supplies observers hesitated to pre pr diet that industrial sugar rationing would be ended before october 31 as scheduled under existing legislation a they explained that the beet crop would not be harvested until this fall Alean meanwhile while the united states will obtain its sugar from traditional suppliers like cuba hawaii puerto rico and the virgin islands tho the philippine islands which formerly sent Us this country nearly one million tons of sugar annually win will send none this year because their sugar production has not recovered from the devastation ot ol the japa nese military occupation tho the estimated increase in sugar production to in the united states would place the 1947 crop at 22 million topi tons of which about 17 17 million would ibe be beet sugar sugar and the remaining iane cane last year this country produced milli million tons of both baet biet and cane sugar which was about tons belo below w an average crop with supplies of 0 cane ana beet sugar now adequate to supply all demands by bi housewives demands tor for other sweeteners are ex expected to cle decline cline the these so sweeteners many of which werle were used in war time as substitutes ifor for sugar include corn sugar and maple sugar and isis ses 14 |