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Ruthlessly resolved to force coffee prices up, Brazil's National Coffee Council continues to burn coffee (TIME, July 6). It announced last week that 6,565,641 sacks of coffee have been burned. It promised to burn by Jan. 1, 1933 a total of 18 million sacks each containing 132 Ib. of coffee. At approximately $6.50 per sack, $117,000,000 worth of coffee will have been turned to smoke...
Club for the expressed purpose of determining the best air route across the Atlantic. But spade-bearded General Italo Balbo, promoter of the conference, was not really looking for information. He was well satisfied with the lane from West Africa to Brazil across which he had led a squadron of ten seaplanes last year. General Balbo had something else on his mind: a proposal that all nations open their airports to international commercial traffic as seaports admit ships of all flags. The delegates were without authority but could direct sentiment...
Squarely behind Coste stood his compatriot Jean Mermoz (Africa-Brazil 1930) and the Spanish delegate Ignacio...
Iglesias (Spain-Brazil 1929). On General Balbo's side spoke Portugal's Admiral Gago Coutinho (Lisbon-Brazil 1922) whose government had given France the Azores concession, and Harold Gatty of the U. S. (round-world 1931). A vote was called by Chairman Sir Arthur Whitten Brown (first Atlantic flight, Newfoundland-Ireland 1919, with the late Sir John William Alcock). While French and Spanish delegates sat mute the rest of the Congress upheld Balbo's open-door policy...
...Passage on the Graf from Friedrichshafen to Pernambuco. Brazil is $480 with a 10% reduction for round-trip