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...Crude Brazilian smoking methods require 30 days to make a bolacha; East Indian methods, ten. Remedy: import from U. S. thousands of machines (cost: $15 each) recommended by Goodyear experts to speed up processing...
Sixteen hundred ships a year called at Pará (now Belém do Pará); and a thousand miles up the orchid-stinking Amazon ocean freighters pulled up to the $40,000,000 stone pier and floating dock at Manaus. They took away a single cargo, bolachas (crude rubber balls). They brought a more varied one: pink tiles, champagne, pâté de foie gras, grand pianos, gold watches, diamond rings, French lingerie for rubber kings' naked native wives, French mistresses to replace them. Manaus went cultural, built a $5,000,000 opera house, closed it again...
...worried Uncle Sam behind him to some extent was indicated by the fact that at Manaus he received exhaustive reports from experts of the U. S. Department of Agriculture working in conjunction with private experts from Goodyear. In Belem, Vargas lunched with John Ingle, head of Goodyear's Crude Rubber Division, who flew there from Akron as guest of Vargas' golf partner, Brazil's dynamic, smart, supersalesman, Valentim F. Boucas. Observers thought Goodyear would probably accept an invitation to establish an experimental station in Pará, might even build a plant. It looked as though Uncle...
Satire in all its refinements and lack of refinement also went into the pot-crude take-offs on a dictator's pretensions and occupations, neat bits such as a radio commentator's translation of the dictator's oration of hate, one magnificent scene in which Dictator Chaplin lifts a globe of the world from a stand in his office and does a bubble dance, exquisite and grotesque...
...young, blond, solidly-built Abram Peters Steckel, engineering student, watched sweating men in a wire plant reduce cold rods to thin wire by successive draws through rollers and dies. Mechanically-minded Steckel thought the same idea could be used in reducing steel strips and sheets. He built a crude cold-rolling mill in a friend's garage, went broke...