Though few U. S. coffee-drinkers knew it, a threat hung over them last week. There was a possibility that soon their coffee cups might not be refilled at the asking, even that they might not be filled at all. The blockade of revolutionary forces in the great Brazilian coffee port of Santos by the Federal Government was threatening the chief source of U. S. coffee. Slipping out after the blockade was established, the last coffee boat from Santos docked in Manhattan Aug. 4 with 13,200 bags aboard....
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