It is recognised that the existing shortage of sweetmeats caused by the inadequacy of the supplies of raw materials, particularly of glucose, occasions much hardship to small retailers.
I do not want people to get swept away with sweetmeats and chocolates.
I may give as an example interference with small private traders, such as the prohibition of the sale of sweetmeats in theatres.
They bought some marzipan or other sweetmeat for 10,000 marks, and at the given moment they sold the sweetmeats for 100,000 marks.
Take the ordinary sort of confectionery or small sweetmeat shop.
In the laundry industry and in the sweetmeat industry you get boys and girls started just after they have left school.
Surely they have had a chat about this nice little sweetmeat which is to be handed to them.
I interpret it as the collective name for sweetmeats and confections.
