Prices for raw sugar, after their recent sharp upturn, declined in a manner natural in such speculative movements. The refineries have followed the prices for raw sugar downwards by cutting the price of refined sugar in proportion.
The agitation by housewives and others for a boycott of sugar is claimed by its organizers to have been responsible for the decline. Yet, from the size and character of the " parade" attempted in Manhattan by Mayor Hylan's committee of women, this seems doubtful indeed. Mrs. Louis R. Welzmiller, Deputy Commissioner of Markets, had announced...
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