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...four leaders: the Amazon, the Parana, the Madeira, the Puriis...
...heavy going, Rockefeller has four projects (besides the mechanization company) that can argue for themselves. On an 867-acre hilltop farm near Jacarezinho, a mixedcapital company has completed its 32nd cross of Brazilian seed corn, has harvested 32 tons of high-yielding hybrid, and sold the lot to Parana and São Paulo farmers. For the world's third largest corn producer, the possibilities of hybrid were scarcely less revolutionary than they had proved for Iowa...
More Normal Granaries. A third Rockefeller enterprise, formed with Cargill, Inc. of Minneapolis, is planning grain elevators for São Paulo and Parana. At harvest time in southern Brazil, wheat and corn take a back seat to coffee. Through poor storage, as much as 80% of the wheat crop has been lost to rats and rot. Lacking storage space, farmers often sell at panic prices. By renting space in the new company's elevators, farmers can hold off for better prices from middlemen, and Brazil will have to import less wheat. Another joint company has set up four...
...morning, with my three colleagues, I boarded the Buenos Aires plane and sat there, feeling most uncomfortable, with a big, fat manila envelope full of opposition documents among my possessions. Neither the police nor the customs officials molested me, however, and when the big seaplane took off from the Parana river it was too late for anyone to do anything about...
...wild Chaco region of Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. They swarmed into southern Brazil on a 60-mile front, blotting out the sun as they flew, making more noise than a squadron of diving planes. It took them four hours (at 9 m.p.h.) to fly over one village in Paranaá state. They blocked roads, stalled trains, invaded houses. They devastated eight towns, ate up an estimated 60,000 tons of wheat -more than half of Brazil's small but vital wheat crop...