Word: amazon
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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When the commercial demand for rubber first commenced, the happiest country was Brazil, home of the rubber plant which grows in wild abundance along the Amazon. In 1912 rubber exports from Brazil were second only to coffee, consisted of 43,000 tons with a value of $78,000,000. Brazil seemed entering a new era of prosperity; great public works were begun. But never again was 1912 equalled in Brazil. For in 1876 an Englishman, Sir Henry Wickham, had taken some rubber seeds to London, thence sent them to Ceylon. And by 1900 the Far East had exported four tons...
...mass-production pays, there has Henry Ford succeeded. But even as the tropics and all the vexatious conditions they imply have conquered the genius of many another white man, so last week did they seem to have conquered Henry Ford, symbol of System, Efficiency, Profits. In the rich, deep Amazon Valley, the jungle was reported slowly closing in on a Ford enterprise...
...Henry Ford undertook to grow rubber in Brazil. His idea was not to use the wild trees, but to clear the jungle, adopt the plantation method, use selected seeds. Great were the tales of what Ford Initiative plus Ford Ingenuity plus Ford Resource plus the fertile Amazon soil would produce...
...Tribe. On horseback, Desmond Holdridge, 24, explorer for the Brooklyn Museum, rode for 30 days from the mouth of the Amazon River to Rio Brasco in the jungle country of Brazil, close to the Venezulean border. With him went a native horse thief, the only guide brave enough to accompany him. In the heart of the jungle he found the Pishauko tribe, known to white men by name only. Originally a plains people, the Pishauko fled into the jungle to escape becoming slaves to Spanish conquerors. The natives worship before a symbol which looks like a crucifix, chant services before...
Thus was crowned Tafari Makonnen, King of Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah, the Elect of God, the Light of the World, Power of Trinity I, Emperor qf Abyssinia. For his spouse, the Queen of Queens, their Coronation was almost a coming out party. She is a chunky, chocolate amazon, he a small, slender, olive-skinned African Disraeli who astutely keeps her hidden. But they have much in common. Both looked on with glistening-eyed approval as "The Feast of Raw Meat" began. Lowing oxen had been driven into the courtyard of the palace until it was almost full. His Majesty...