Rudolph Spreckels, onetime political reformer of San Francisco, more recently a harbinger of hope to the sagging sugar industry (TIME, Nov. 19), made a gesture last week. President of Federal ...

WASHINGON, Jan. 9.--Claus Spreckels, the sugar king of the Pacific slope, made a statement before the Senate Committee on Finance this morning concerning his experiments in the manufacture of beet ...

This is the story historian Sandra E. Bonura tells in “The Sugar King of California: The Life of Claus Spreckels.” A “quintessential rags-to-riches tale,” Bonura calls her biography ...

The former Holly Sugar Plant now operates under the name Spreckels Sugar Co. Inc., part of the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative (SMBSC). No words can mend the broken hearts and sorrow ...