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The past 100 years, Feb. 9, 2014
2014-02-10 07:48:31| Sugar Industry News
Feb. 9, 1914: Ogden, Utah Owing to a crisis in the beet sugar industry due to tariff changes, the members of the executive committee of the United States sugar industry, an organization made up of representatives of all the large sugar companies from California to Michigan, is holding a special election by telegraph in naming a successor to John L. Howard, whose sudden death in San Francisco two weeks ago during the sensational trial of the Western Fuel company, created a vacancy in the chairmanship and as a result Judge H.H. Rolapp, of the Amalgamated Sugar company, of Ogden, has been selected to that position. The chairman of the executive committee is virtually head of the combined beet industry of the United States.
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