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...most blends sold in the U.S.) is being imported in decreasing amounts, 842,000 bags in April, 635,000 in May, 348,000 in June. Of the 10,594,715-bag quota, only 6,181,559 had been landed in 8½ months up to mid-June. Meantime Colombia's tasty mountain-grown coffee was imported to the tune of 330,991 bags last week, an alltime weekly record. Thus, for one week at least, Colombia beat Brazil 4-to-1, whereas the usual ratio is 2-to-1 in favor of Brazil. Imports of most Central American coffees...
Reason for this turnabout: it is safer and easier to ship coffee 1,600 miles from Colombia to New Orleans than 6,000 miles up the Atlantic from Rio. But Brazil will not be the loser. Brazilian bigwigs in São Paulo last week announced that the Good-Neighborly U.S. would buy up all Brazilian coffee not shipped by September's end. That will give Brazil a credit of over $25,000,000 on U.S. banks and give the U.S. a credit of perhaps 2,000,000 bags in Brazilian warehouses...
...caused by fungi which settle in the epidermis, permanently blotch the skin with patches of greyish violet or red. When the sickness runs its course, dark men are streaked dead white, fair men dull blue, sometimes tinged with green. (Mr. Wilson first saw green and blue men on a Colombia farm after a "night out".) Neither painful nor fatal, pinta is serious because it disfigures, is very infectious. It can be checked with antiseptic drugs, especially chrysarobin, powder obtained from a tropical tree, which is an ancient remedy of Indian herb doctors. But only tattooing can restore the blotches...
...sail came back to the Caribbean last week as the U.S., with RFC cash, set out to build a thousand new wooden schooners in the little shipyards of the West Indies, Venezuela, Colombia and Central America. First contract for six 300-to 500-ton schooners has been let to a shipyard in the Dominican Republic. The second will go to Cuba...
...deliveries until a few days ago. Like sugar and gasoline, the coffee shortage is really a transportation shortage. The U.S. normally uses 12-15,000,000 bags* of coffee a year-all of it imported. At least half comes from Brazil's vast plantations, another 25% from Colombia, the rest in piddling amounts from other South and Central American countries, Africa, the East Indies...