{"id":7071607,"date":"2026-10-01T16:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7071607"},"modified":"2026-10-01T16:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:55:16","slug":"coffee-nyc-department-of-records-information-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7071607","title":{"rendered":"Coffee \u2014 NYC Department of Records &#038; Information Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-sqsp-text-block-content=\"\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">A news article from 1940 reported that the Quartermaster Depot based at the Brooklyn Army Terminal was planning to purchase 40 million pounds of coffee annually, up from 10 million pounds.\u00a0And, that would only fulfill half of the Army\u2019s needs.\u00a0This is the first indication of possible difficulty ahead for coffee consumers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The FWP wrote about substitute foods in July 1941 stating that the rationing procedures adopted in England provided a clue to the foods likely to be scarce in the United States. These foods included tea, but not coffee. \u201cMoreover, what England may be deprived of in the present emergency is not necessarily a guide to what we may be in America, as for example, coffee, which is not rationed there, chiefly the British, as a people are not great coffee drinkers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Early in November, 1942 Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia tackled the topic of coffee rationing on his radio program, with the goal of explaining why coffee was facing restrictions.\u00a0He acknowledged that coffee was ample but mostly in South America and the Caribbean.\u00a0\u201cThe supply is plentiful, but the rub is shipping it. 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