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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...
With their two pieces of earth-moving equipment, a foundation gang last week pushed a rough track (see map) through the jungle at the rate of half a mile a day. The foundation's goal is a road running 1,100 miles across the Amazonian basin to Manaus, and linking the river by land with Brazil's industrial metropolis of Sáo Paulo, 1,700 miles to the south. Flying over five emergency airfields that foundation men have opened along the way with their machetes. Brazilian air force planes next week will start the first scheduled...
Death & Slavery. Of the 18,000 men who went to Amazonia, only a few were ever seen again. Most of these, ragged derelicts, now beg in the streets of Manaus and Belem. Others have staggered home to tell bitter stories of slavery and death. Said one: "The thieving rubber buyers and the mosquitoes were our worst enemies. Those of us who tried to escape were captured and beaten senseless. Those who really escaped were imprisoned in the mysteries of the jungle...
...river valley his only market, Clayton first floated oil drums downstream to Iquitos as rafts tied together with vines and buoyed by balsa logs. Later he got barges, now has river tankers. During the war he sold gasoline, kerosene and fuel oil as far down the river as Manaus...
...Archipelago. Brazilians like to point out that their vast country is really an archipelago of widely scattered population islands that only airlines can tie together. It used to take 13 days, by the quickest transportation, to get from Rio to Manaus near the mighty Amazon. Now, with stops along the way, flying boats and land planes cover the 2,000 miles in two days. Planes cut the distance to doctors in a country short of skilled specialists. A hundred lively aero-clubs, sponsored by the Government, have brought planes to many parts of Brazil before the motorcar; some 600 airfields...