Scope and Content Note
The papers of Saul Kolodny (1918-2001) span the years 1940-1983 and include correspondence, reports, graphs, charts, memoranda, printed matter, photographs, and miscellaneous material pertaining to his career as an economist for the sugar industry. Kolodny began in 1938 with the United States Cane Sugar Refiners’ Association, the cane sugar industries trade association. He received an A.B. in statistics in 1940 from Columbia University. During World War II, he served with the association’s Cane Sugar Refiners’ War Committee and the United States Department of Agriculture assisting the government with allocation of raw sugar supplies to various refiners and designing statistical reports and control procedures. In 1947 he joined the American Sugar Refining Company, later renamed Amstar Corporation, as an economist and manager of planning and analysis. He was appointed vice president of economic research in 1975 and served as an industry advisor to the United States mission to United Nations sugar conferences in 1973 and 1980. He retired from the Amstar Corporation in 1983.
Kolodny’s reports, memoranda, graphs, charts, and other supplemental material document the highly-regulated sugar industry from World War II to the early 1980s. Among his writings are reports on the war’s effect on sugar production, studies of domestic and international sugar production and consumption, studies of weather conditions, and economic and industry forecasts. Correspondence includes letters and memoranda exchanged with colleagues in the Department of Agriculture, Amstar Corporation, and others in the sugar industry. The collection also includes five albums of photographs of sugar beet fields in northern Europe, 1976-1980.