date:Dec 20, 2018
xpanded into a larger vested interest. He calculated that American consumers forced to buy subsidized sugar paid $350 million in excess of what they would otherwise pay.
Congress passed the legislation anyway, and Roosevelt reluctantly signed it after receiving assurances from Congress that the unholy alliance between the cane and beet growers, on the one hand, and the seaboard refining monopoly, on the other would cease to exist.
That promise went nowhere, and 10 years later, Congress renewed