Word: dourados
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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...Already it has half a dozen airstrips serviced by Jari planes, hundreds of miles of roads well traveled by a fleet of more than 500 Jari cars and trucks, and a series of towns and hamlets populated by 10,000 workers. The capital of this jungle kingdom is Monte Dourado (present pop. 3,500), a sprawling new community of attractive bungalows, town houses and apartments. A Jari-built hospital staffed by seven doctors cares for the sick, and a Jari school educates the employees' children. A giant service depot stocks nearly $6 million worth of spare parts and equipment...
...cost of $250,000 each, Ludwig imported giant Caterpillar "jungle crushers," overgrown bulldozers designed to pull down the natural jungle growth. But these machines proved useless because they damaged the unexpectedly delicate Amazon topsoil. Today one of the jungle crushers stands abandoned and rusting on the outskirts of Monte Dourado. The job is now being done by work gangs using machetes and chain saws to clear the land...
When he is at the project, he stays in an ordinary room at a modest guest house in Monte Dourado and stomps about wearing 25-year-old gray trousers and an even more ancient pair of black dress shoes. He visits congenially with his employees and their families, talking about the future with the energy of a man half his age. Says Volker Eisenlohr, the German-born manager of the kaolin project: "When I first met him 13 years ago, he said, 'Go fast, I only have four years left.' Now he is still saying the same thing." His people...
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