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Show Filling Coffee Cups of America A half a billion pounds of the golden bean coffee come up from Latin America each year to the port of New Orleans, there to be ground, rousted and blended to make America's favorite "brew." Recognized at a morale builder, coffee is in great favor with military men, and ouilboys on land, sea and in the air look forward to that steaming cujl These photos take you to Coffee Town. Heavy bags of green coffee hang poised over the heads of the carriers in the great dockside coffee sheds in New Orleans, and then are dropped upon the head of four huskies. .l A J831 ; j Preparations are here being made for "cupping" in a New Orleans Or-leans coffee firm, one of the steps in grading and testing of coffee. These coffee tasters sit at a circular cir-cular table which revolves to bring them cup after cup of different dif-ferent varieties. r - f, - v; ' j jrT STTTV,. 4i A coffee maker prepares a big pot of the age-old brew that has cheered savant and common man alike from time immemorial. ' ' ' ; U ,4 , A ! r f i In an old French quarter coffee cof-fee kitchen, coffee is poured with one hand ivhile milk is poured ivith the other. A young "car hop" gaily sivings out to the rows of parked cars ivith coffee for two brewed in the inimitable Coffee Town way. x,- " -1 i |