Show A ITS A A SWEET LIFE end to sugar shortage Is tage seen CHICAGO with a record crop 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 in adequate sugar supplies lies tor for home use and canning were a advised d that they need not fear ear a recurrence of wartime and postwar shortages I 1 private estimates indicated that U S production of 0 beet and cane sugar this year would exceed last years production by more than tons doubling previous estimates 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 tona larger than the crop last year and one million more than had been expected the spokesmen said despite this outlook for sugar supplies observers hesitated to predict that industrial sugar rationing would be ended before october 31 as scheduled under existing legislation they explained that the beet crop would not be harvested until this fau all meanwhile the united states will obtain its sugar from traditional suppliers like cuba hawaii puerto rico and the virgin islands the philippine islands which formerly 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 0 the japa nese military occupation the estimated increase in production in the united state would place the 1947 crop at 24 2 million tons of which about 17 rall ml lion would be beet sugar and thi th remaining cane last year thi country produced million ton of both beet and cane sugar chic was about tons below ai average crop with supplies of cane and bee be sugar now adequate to supply a al demands by housewives demand deman expects for other sweeteners are expect to decline these sweeteners man of which were used in war time a substitutes for or sugar include con sugar and maple sugar ani am honey cane bors borg and molasses |