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When the leatherized skin tore, as occasionally happens, Dr. Bettman resorted to isografts. These are razor thin strips of skin (taken from a donor whose blood matches the patient's) laid over the raw surfaces. Such isografts soon disintegrate but temporarily they act as a natural dressing and, when supplemented by a preparation called "oxyquinoline sulphate scarlet r" which Dr. Bettman devised, they reduced infection and temperature, and enabled the children to gain strength. After nine days of this Dr. Bettman took auto-grafts from healthy areas of the patients' own thighs, and after three months' hospitalization...
That, in effect, sets limits on the amount of sugar U. S. refiners may refine. The price of raw sugar is affected directly by tariffs, which are not uniform, Cuba getting a preferential per lb. levy, other foreign countries paying 1.875^, while U. S. insular possessions like Hawaii and the Philippines ship in sugar duty free...
...this sweet confusion there is one thing that makes Mr. Babst fairly boil-importations of refined sugar. Up to about ten years ago, virtually all imports were raw sugar, and Mr. Babst and his fellow sugarmen refined...
Then smart entrepreneurs started building refineries in the tropics, shipping the finished product instead. The tariff on raw and refined was approximately the same, while labor and taxes were lower than in the U. S. By 1934 these tropical refiners were supplying nearly one-tenth of the 6,000,000-odd tons oi sugar annually consumed...
...that point, inscead of hearkening to Mr. Babst's preliminary squawks, the New Deal froze the situation by dividing import quotas between refined and raw sugar. Mr. Babst was thankful to have the growth stopped but now with the Jones-Costigan Sugar Control Act coming up for extension, he wants the tropical refineries cut off altogether. Three U. S. refineries have been closed, says he, and most of the rest are operating far short of capacity...