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This Gentleman turned up in Barranquilla in late July 1936 with his then Model T Sedan, and two pals. We learned that he had crossed Colombia, from Ecuador on excellent highways as far as the upper Magdalena River, from where his conveyance floated down the River on a very comfortable steamer for approximately 900 kilometers, landing him in Barranquilla, where he covered several of his kilometers on concrete city streets...
HENRY E. METRAL Barranquilla, Colombia...
Over the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil for six years has hung a continual pall of acrid smoke. Meanwhile, the sky above Medellin, Colombia has been clear. Last week this fact was responsible for the death of a crop control program far older and far bigger than any ever attempted by the New Deal. With a suddenness which upset coffee cups all over the world the Brazilian Government announced that it would abandon its 31-year attempt to limit coffee production, would adopt instead a policy of open competition...
...seemed to promise that Brazil might finally get some cooperation from other coffee producing nations. For that is the crux of the problem. While Brazil has rigorously and painfully sliced away at her own surplus, necessarily sacrificing some part of her share of the world market, rival nations, notably Colombia, have greedily continued to grow and sell more & more coffee. In the crop year ended June 30, Brazilian coffee exports were off 12%, those of rival nations up 11%. During the first four months of the current crop year, Brazil shipped 18% less coffee to world markets than...
...prevent speculation, all Brazilian coffee exchanges were last week ordered closed. In Bogota, the Exchange Control Board of Colombia tightened up on foreign exchange and coffee exchanges buzzed. In the U. S., world's greatest coffee drinking nation, the New Orleans Exchange closed its doors and prices broke the full 1? daily limit on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange. By week's end December coffee options were down to 7?per lb. U. S. retail coffee prices remained unchanged, however, because it takes about a month for Brazilian coffee to reach the U. S. and not until...