Word: amazon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Valentim Boucas, amiable financial adviser to President Getulio Vargas, was in Washington last week. He concluded an agreement which raised the price of wild Amazon rubber and shifted to the Brazilians the responsibility for producing it (TIME, Feb. 28). Also on his mind was the dubious postwar future of Amazon rubber...
...paratroopers). Not all were well chosen. At first they were new to the country, poorly coordinated, confused by Washington rivalries. But they gradually got together under the leadership of Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, did their big job fairly well. The only bad mess was the wild rubber program in the Amazon Valley, where Americans did not take proper advantage of native experience...
...Xingú. Later they plan a rendezvous on the water divide. The final round will take them down off the grassy plateau and forest country, then farther north through snake, armadillo and alligator-infested jungles to Santarem, 125 miles south of the equator on the steaming Amazon...
...wide circle of friends and debtors, even hinting publicly that he considered BEW an irresponsible one-man show. A whispering campaign started in Congress: BEW was giving away U.S. money to build postwar industries in Russia and South America; it was trying to introduce bathtubs to the Amazon jungles...
ENOUGH FRONTIERS. In Australia, Canada and South America government commissions are laying plans for the immigration of millions of new settlers. Fifteen thousand workers have moved into the Amazon country. Engineers are exploring the water route from the Rio Negro to the Orinoco. Bulldozers have shoved a 1,671-mile road to Alaska, while the U.S. and Canada discuss joint development of the newly opened territory...