Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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No longer would the natives have to send money for caninha out of the territory to Rio de Janeiro from which it took five months by river to reach Pôrto Velho. More important, the ships can carry badly needed beans and flour instead.
Then in 1955 he came across the 500-acre tract in Rondonia, an overgrown remainder of a busted boom in wild, natural rubber. "I wanted that land so bad my head boiled over" he recalls. He got it on time payments for a price estimated at less than 25? an...
The Brazilian Amazon Development Agency lent him $125,000 to start his rubber and Brazil nut groves, but since they take seven years before they bear fruit, he planted sugar cane for a quicker crop. It grew fast- 18 ft. high. To make the most of it he had to...
Vows Jungle Jim : "They'll get triple their money's worth." From the size of the native thirst, he will pay off his land next year, net $150,000 in 1962.
Dried Fish. This is just the beginning of the profits he intends to wrest from the jungle. Next he plans to buy another 1,200,000 acres of nearby land and clear enough so he can grow more cane and build a refinery to supply the sugar needs of the...