Word: departamento
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...against his wishes, Senhor Aranha resigned from his treasury post, was persuaded to reconsider. Probably his standing at home will depend on what he does for huge Brazil's huge coffee output in the trade treaty negotiations pending in Washington. It was Strong Man Aranha who guided the Departamento Nacional do Café, whose wholesale destruction of coffee has brought Brazil something of a boom...
...thwart His bounty. Yet the same God has so far failed to register His displeasure with another program for the willful destruction of natural wealth which, for sheer grandeur in scope and execution, dwarfs anything ever attempted in the U. S. or elsewhere. In three years Brazil's Departamento Nacional do Café has fired, made into fuel briquets or dumped into the deep blue sea 31,500,000 bags of coffee-4,000,000,000 lb., worth at last week's prices of 11½? per lb. some $500,000,000. This amount would have kept...
...coffee for destruction. The burning and dumping had hardly begun before the 1933 crop turned out to be the biggest in history-nearly 30,000,000 bags. And all the world can use is 25,000,000 bags per year. But President Armando Vidal Leite Ribeiro of Departamento Nacional do Café made more briquets from coffee and tar, fired bigger mountains of beans, shoveled more bags into...