Show plastics of coffee bring new hope to troubled brazil brazi RIO DE JANEIRO bran brazils 1 s greatest new industry is a demonstration of the worlds most amazing scientific solution to an overproduction problem coffee plastics from which brazil may make homes and schools war planes plane s and even the industrial machinery of the future is the answer of modern science to a surplus crop problem which threatened to engulf the whole economy of brazil and impoverish millions of her peoples people sl 1 while all europe goes coffee less brazils great coffee industry has warehouses bulging with the pound surplus left over from jast year the national coffee department part ment also has on hand pounds more purchased purchase d from despondent coffee owners in in pound sacks for 10 cents eachl brazil has watched a total sacrifice I 1 quota of pounds of coffee go up in smoke 1930 40 in in a desperate effort to stabilize her most important industry only a scientific miracle such as camelite Caf elite win will save the bumper 1940 and the greater 1941 crops from the same disastrous end world market reduced with an annual production of 2 billion pounds and a normal overproduction of million pounds the war has reduced world markets until the united states is now brazils only substantial customer add to this surplus the million pounds which europe would normally have bought this year and you have a coffee problem that would give any country a hea headache dachel conditions in brazils great coffee states have been desperate groups of coffee planters petitioned for the right to uproot whole orchards of fine coffee trees and coffee was selling on the new york coffee exchange at lowest prices in history looking ahead gloomily to the best coffee crop in years brazil may be literally drugged by her own coffee what is brazil going to do plastics possible solution while secret preparations have gone on for months in a too good to be true atmosphere hope doubt and hope again has grown that the coffee plastics will really make all the magic things science says that the miracle of coffee plastics will save this wanton destruction of coffee money has been the hope of every coffee planter and laborer watching the great barn like buildings rise on barren lands outside sao paulo seeing great crates of machinery arrive from the U S the new camelite Caf elite is heat resist ing and thus excellent for brazils warmer climate it is noise proof and may save the nerves of brazil ians from the increasing racket of city traffic it is proof against termites and other pests who destroy homes and furniture in warmer all climates it may be made in a whole range of lovely bathroom colors or combined with other substances to imitate wood or wallpaper it was discovered by a clever young north american herbert spencer polin while doing research for the american coffee corporation in his floating yacht laboratory and rushed to brazil plumbing fixtures made ot of coffee plastics would be a godsend god send for millions of brazilians Brazi lians living in the far interior and for cheap apartment homes too cabinets electrical appliances kitchen equipment furniture school and hospital equipment perhaps whole homes and apart apartment mew of the future will be made out of surplus coffee coffeen I 1 |