Cuban Cane Sugar 



by any other country in the con- 

 sumption of candy, but have con- 

 sumed more than all other countries 

 reporting candy manufacture. 



New York City is our largest candy 

 consuming centre the largest con- 

 suming centre in the world both as 

 to total consumption and per capita 

 consumption. 



At first thought we might say that 

 New York is a city of wealth and 

 prosperity and that its enormous 

 candy consumption represents the 

 gratification of a desire for a luxury. 



But New York's candy is not sold 

 to New York's rich it is sold to sat- 

 isfy the hunger of New York's poor. 

 Where New York consumes one 

 pound of high priced candies it 

 consumes at least ten pounds of the 

 cheaper grades such as are sold on 

 the push-carts of Delancey Street. 



From this we can only judge that 

 there must be an economic reason 

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