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...pass a certain stretch of road for two or three weeks," says one road engineer, "I almost always find a new cluster of shacks there when I get back." Cidade Presidente Kennedy, founded in April 1964 700 miles north of Brasilia, already has a population of 1,000. Araguaina, which got its start in 1958 as a road-construction camp 500 miles north of Brasilia, is now up to 8,000 people, has its own branch of the Bank of Brazil and will soon have a $1,600,000 factory that will refine oil from native babaçú nuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: On the Road to Dreams | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

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