Word: par
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best all-round rubber tree is Brazil's Hevea brasiliensis, and for decades Pará was another name for rubber. As world demand arose, grew, skyrocketed, upper Amazon adventurers rose to be bloody kings and barons. Their technique was simple: enslavement, torture, rape, starvation and murder, plus a fantastic use of company-store methods that had washerwomen in sleazy evening gowns and everybody in debt till the year after eternity. Hundreds of miles up the jungle rivers they fought feudal wars with one another. At the height of the rubber boom in 1909-10, rubber...
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...
...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 Sam were already beginning to hedge against Pacific blockade...
...German Condor airline. First snip came in June when he refused a petition of the Rio-São Paulo branch to keep two of its Nazi pilots on the payroll. Last month he cut a little closer, canceled a contract for service be tween Belem (formerly Pará), at the mouth of the Amazon, and the French Guiana frontier. Three weeks ago he brought out his shears again, ousted all foreign pilots, whether naturalized or not, from Brazilian airlines...
...earned 32 times over, his conservative directors last week paid all back dividends, planned to buy the shares for cancellation, thus clearing the way for common dividends. Like many a defense industry's preferred stocks, the price of Republic's has tripled since 1935, is now near par...