Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...suggested that this was done deliberately by the Brazilian Government as an attempt to stabilize internal coffee prices and lower world prices. As recently as last fortnight Fernando Costa, rich Sao Paulo planter who is currently president of D. N. C. declared that D. N. C.'s crop control would continue. Last week, however, the Brazilian Government tired of playing Santa Claus, announced not only that production will no longer be limited but that the Brazilian coffee export tax will be cut some 75%. Said Finance Minister Arthur de Souza Costa: "It would be neither possible nor just that...
...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...
This department is concerned directly with the problems of State and Municipal sanitation, such as water supply and waste disposal, and in cooperation with the Harvard School of Public Health also considers the problems arising in industrial sanitation, particularly with sanitary air control...
...water purification, the Department of Sanitary Engineering has intensively studied the hydraulics of sand filteration and means of cleaning such sand filters to maintain their efficiency. The osmoscope has also been used in studying the odors and tastes in drinking water, and further studies have been made in the control of microscopic organisms...