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...Pioneers. Two and a half years ago, when husky, high-powered Bernardo Sayao Carvalho Araujo (TIME, April 7, 1947) was opening up the government's Colonia Agricola Nacional just west of Anapolis he made Dr. Fanstone the colony's chief medical officer. The growing colony meant a fresh load for the hospital, but Dr. Jim jammed in more beds, took care of all who came. Last week, as he watched workmen finish a new wing for his hospital, he knew that it would still not be big enough for the need...
Many who come to Anapolis are on their way to the new Government Colonia Agricola Nacional and its embryonic town of Ceres. The Colonia, one of seven set up by Dictator Vargas in 1941, and the most successful, is an experiment in agrarian socialism. To poor men it holds out the promise of free land, home, security...
...Engineer. In the Colonia the man who has made actuality of an idea is a strapping, suntanned engineer named Bernardo Sayão Carvalho Araujo.* He knows the backlands, understands their need for large-scale immigration, and knows all about their lack of good roads and railways. A leader who wants to know how a man gets along with his neighbors,, how his crops are coming, he calls by first name many of the 15,000 settlers in the Colonia. Last week he was in Rio seeking money for the Colonia, for the Government had paid not a cruzeiro...
...Colonia's soil is the loamy terra roxa (red earth) that Brazilians prize most. After two years' full operation, the farms, for which the Government gives seeds and advice, burgeon with fat crops of rice, 15-ft. corn, sugar cane thick as a truck driver's wrist, beans planted among the corn to keep the ground rich and productive. Says Sayão: "They don't mind planting vegetables, but are horrified at the idea of eating them. 'Makes you sick,' they say." But they are catching on, and on better-balanced diets already...
Conversion or Adjustment? Central Americans display a wary reluctance to believe that Saul has become Paul, but such timely changes have won some friends among old critics of United Fruit. In Costa Rica, where United Fruit donated land for labor colonies, Communist-controlled unions named one of the settlements "Colonia Hamer," after the company's Costa Rican manager. Judicious wage increases have also spared United Fruit some labor headaches, but they may not save it from the projected new labor code's provisions for social security, hospitalization at company expense, and overtime pay, which are expected to cost...