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...Paulo boasts the most impressive skyline anywhere outside the U.S. Land at its financial core, the bank-packed downtown Triangle, sells for as much as Wall Street real estate. Modern buildings are pulled down to make way for bigger skyscrapers. On the average, a new building is finished every 50 minutes the year round. Air traffic is greater than that of London Airport. Though broad boulevards have been hacked through the city to channel the swelling flow of workers and shoppers, traffic congestion gets worse & worse. Sáo Paulo has 15,000 industrial plants and millionaires' mansions such...
...collective drive of the Paulistas, who since they built their city on a broad shelf nearly 3,000 ft. above sea level, escape the enervating climate of the tropical lowlands. Drawn by good land and climate, nearly 1,000,000 European immigrants, mainly Italian, surged into Sáo Paulo state at the turn of the century, just when the city was ready to get up & go. Out of the melting pot of older Brazilians, Italians, Portuguese, Spaniards, Germans, Levantines and Japanese emerged the Paulista, cockily claiming a spiritual relationship with the swashbuckling bandeirantes (flag bearers) who founded...
...modern bandeirantes began to roll in 1867, when the British built a railroad up the beetling cliffs between Sáo Paulo and the port of Santos. A coffee boom followed, and for 50 years or so, coffee was the life blood of Sáo Paulo. The state of Sáo Paulo still has more than a billion coffee trees, one-fourth of the world's total, but its coffee land is playing out; the nearest big plantation is now two hours' drive from the capital...
Even before coffee began to give out, Sáo Paulo's industry got a running start from one of the greatest engineering feats on earth. The city stands near the Atlantic brink of a broad plateau whose rivers drain away to the west and finally to the sea 1,000 miles away in Argentina. In 1922, Asa Billings, an Omaha-born, Harvard-educated engineer for Sáo Paulo's Canadian-owned power company, got the idea of damming these rivers and guiding their waters back over the 2,400-ft. palisades to the Atlantic. Magnificently successful...
Cutting the Pie. Today, the state of Sáo Paulo's 34,000 factories and 700.000 industrial workers turn out half of Brazil's industrial goods. The city consumes more electric power per residential customer than Chicago. Nearly half Brazil's foreign trade funnels through the port of Santos. Sáo Paulo makes 10 million shirts a year, 1,500,000 tires, 721 elevators, 1,000,000 aluminum automobile pistons...