Word: coffeemen
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...Chapman promised the coffeemen: "Our first duty will be to tell American housewives that the [frost blight] reports are true." Mrs. Swanbeck summed up: "The hearts of women beat the same all over the world. We are going to keep our friendship, and it is not going to dissolve in a cup of coffee...
COFFEE prices may soar to $1.50 a Ib. within the next year. Brazilian coffeemen say that with inventories exhausted the losses from last June's frost are just beginning to be felt. They expect high prices for at least three years. Meanwhile, consumption keeps climbing; a supermarket survey shows coffee sales up 15% in the New York area, mostly because of scare-buying...
...year and a half that Edward G. Miller Jr. has been U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, he has scored many a point with sympathetic words and by deft handling of sensitive Latin Americans. Last week Miller peeled off his velvet gloves in a blunt address to U.S. coffeemen and Brazilian guests at the National Coffee Association's convention in Boca Raton, Fla. Miller's message: the U.S. expects Latin America to share in the world struggle against Communist imperialism by adjusting its economy to the realities of the U.S. war-production program. The Latin countries' first tasks...
...been set by OPA on the basis of 1941 prices. They were low because of one of the worst coffee gluts in history, although the ceilings were still above the world price. But soon both the cost of coffee production and the cost of living in Latin America soared. Coffeemen found it impossible to market their products at a proit...
...coffeemen yelped even louder. Jacob Rosenthal, head of the Joint Coffee Pro motion Committee and onetime coffee consultant to OPA, called the subsidy "utterly fantastic." In order to buy any coffee at all, he said, U.S. buyers have been paying as much as 3^ a pound over ceiling price by upgrading and short weigh ing - while OPA did practically nothing...