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Article: Marveling at the industrialist's dream of growing a Midwestern- style manufacturing center in the Amazon
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 14, 2009
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Of all the struggles of will and power in the years leading to
America's hegemony after World War II, the least well-known may be
the battle between Henry Ford and the Amazon that began in 1928. So
much was at stake - the prospect of new sources of rubber, essential
for the new industrialization and later for the war effort; the
reputation of one of America's most romantic and most practical men;
and the notion that the American way of life, with its accompanying
pastimes, architecture, and values, was transferable to venues far
away and cultures far different.
Ford's is a great success story, the tale of how a man and a
dream transformed ways of life, work, and leisure for a nation at
the ...