Show ITS IT'S A SWEET LIFE End nd to Sugar Shortage S Seen en CHICAGO With a record crop cropin cropin cropin 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 reveling reveling reveling revel revel- ing in adequate sugar supplies for home use and canning were advised advised advised ad ad- that they need not fear a re recurrence recurrence re- re currence of wartime and postwar shortages Private estimates indicated that U. U S. S production of beet and cane sugar this year would exceed last years year's production by more than tons doubling previous estimates estimates estimates esti esti- mates of the anticipated increase Cuba sugar capi capital al of the world will produce a record crop of more than 64 million tons nearly two million tons larger than the crop last year and one million more than had been expected the spokesmen sa said d. d Despite this outlook for sugar supplies observers hesitated to predict predict predict pre pre- dict that industrial sugar rationing would be be- ended before October 31 as scheduled under existing legisla legisla- tion They explained that the beet crop would not be harvested until this fall Meanwhile the United States will obtain its sugar from traditional suppliers like Cuba Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii Ha Ha- Puerto Rico and the Virgin islands The Philippine islands which formerly formerly for foz- 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 Japa- nese military oc occupation The estimated increase in sugar production in the U United States would place the 1947 crop at 22 million tons which or-which about 17 million million million mil mil- lion would be beet sugar and the remaining cane Last year this country produced 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 |