Word: amazons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wanted. The Amazon's new awakening is beset with old problems. Tennessean Ronald Richardson, now 46, who after World War II duty in Belém stayed on to set up a lumber mill outside the town, knows them well; jungle vines are spreading over the mill and pigs root through his crumbling office. "It's here," he says. "No doubt about it-all the riches on earth. I don't know how to get it out, but dammit"-he pounded his desk so hard the Scotch bottle jumped-"it's here! We need men, real...
...disease. Malaria, yellow fever, yaws, trachoma and filariasis (a forerunner of elephantiasis) sap men's will to work and win. But disease is being fought hard and successfully. During World War II, the U.S. launched a Special Public Health Service (SESP) to protect vital rubber workers from the Amazon's scourges. Now only eight of SESP' 3,153-man staff are U.S. citizens, and 97% of its annual $10 million budget comes from Brazil. The outfit runs 249 rural clinics, 22 hospitals, 109 city water systems, 97 sewage-disposal systems. It has broadened life expectancy from...
...other big problems are power and transportation. Brazil's Amazon development board has built or is building plant to boost power by 61,000 kw. It has cut roads into millions of empty acres and most important, has connected the Amazon basin to the rest of Brazil by a 1,363 mile jungle highway from Belém south to the new capital of Brasilia...
Another mineral is a rich reality. In 1941 a trader picked up a big black stone to ballast his canoe on the Amapari River, later had it analyzed. It turned out to be 60% pure manganese, and today the mine is the Amazon's biggest enterprise, shipping out 75,000 tons a year...
...processing alligator hides, distilling rosewood (for oils used in cosmetics), curing furs (ocelot, jaguar, otter) and skins (water hog, wild boar, deer). Onetime Belém Fruit Peddler and Cabbie Manuel Pinto Silva now turns out building tiles, cement and lumber, is putting the finishing touches on the Amazon's first skyscraper in downtown Belém. Ukraine-born U.S. Citizen Maurice Kleinberg started Belém's first deep-sea fishing fleet in 1956, now ships giant shrimp and red snapper to the U.S. and the Caribbean as fast as he can freeze them...