Eventually, Spreckels’ California empire would include the largest sugar beet factory in the world, rising above his company town of Spreckels, just south of Salinas. The Sugar King attained ...

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 ...

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 ...