Word: manaus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resident high school teacher in Santarem, 400 miles west of Belem, for five years, with plans to return, I am delighted to refer those interested in my trip to your summary and (for me) nostalgic views of such colorful cities as Belém and Manaus...
Last week, back at his base in Rio, De Carvalho dutifully reported on the former U.S. army colonel who calls the Amazon city of Belém "better than ten New Yorks put together," and on the doctor who said that the town of Manaus "is really a fine place to live-all it takes is some psychological adjustment." As for his own views, Correspondent de Carvalho left the clear impression that he felt both the cities and the jungle around them were interesting places to visit, but he would not care to live there...
...tons in 1912-at prices that hit $3 a lb. In the jungle, the rubber barons enslaved Indians and immigrants, drove them so hard that 300,000 died; a 230-mile railroad, built to carry rubber from Bolivia, cost 70 lives a mile to build. In Manaus, the rubber tycoons built mansions and watched Pavlova dance in a $10 million opera house. Then England's Henry Wickham smuggled rubber tree seeds to London's Kew Gardens and on to the Far East, where efficient plantations broke Brazil's monopoly. Now Brazil buys Malayan rubber...
...newcomer who has struck it richest is Isaac Sabba, 53. The son of Czechoslovakian immigrants who arrived in Manaus when he was 14, he worked on the docks to build capital, started buying and selling jungle produce, branched out into manufacturing ("This country can't develop if we just take things out of it"). Now Sabba's string of eleven corporations is making tin cans and rubber tapping cups, shotgun shells, kraft paper, oil drums, prefabricated houses, dynamite. He distills essential oils, makes leather products, refines and distributes petroleum. He has set up a businessman committee to attract...
...lethargy that strikes native Brazilians and Indians. At Tomé Acu, below Belém, the Japanese have helped to carve out one of the world's biggest pepper plantations. At nearby Guama colony, they are working round the clock to supply Belém with food. Outside Manaus. others have turned cleared jungle into lush truck gardens. Amazonas Governor Gilberto Mestrinho says that the Japanese are exactly the kind of settlers the Amazon needs to build the future. "They don't cry for help every time they break an ax handle," he says. "They are not afraid...