date:Dec 20, 2018
the legislation. This new legislation, the Wall Street Journal observed, looked like a creation of the planned economy, but was not thrust on the sugar trade by the government. The law was drafted by sugar interests themselves.
This became the model for future legislation governing sugar production. Some things changed: When Fidel Castro took power in Cuba and confiscated American-owned sugar plantations, it lost its access to the American market. The U.S. now asked other nations to fill the v