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May 11, 2024 · Rumors of a rubber cartel that could dictate prices worldwide sparked the decision to create a plantation where he could produce his own supply. Ford settled on the Amazon and eventually bought $20 million worth of rainforest — almost 4,000 square miles — off Brazilian authorities.
May 10, 2024 · From The Center. Today, many residents in Fordlândia, like Maria Luiza Pereira Silva, 58, live in and maintain what used to be villas for American executives. At the time, he was one of the richest men in the world, thanks to his automobile empire. But he needed control over a rubber supply.
May 22, 2024 · Fordlandia is a small settlement on the River Tapajos in the Brazilian part of the Amazon, where Henry Ford set up a rubber industry in the 1920s. Mainly due to the resistance of nature, the project failed and was abandoned some 20 years later.
May 13, 2024 · Who knows if Para, Brazil, wouldn’t have been another Highland Park if Fordlandia had succeeded? It was a planned industrial (plantation) town spanning 14,000 square kilometers that Henry Ford sited in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest in the 1920s.
May 11, 2024 · Deseret News (@deseretnews). 1 Like. The tale of Fordlândia is about limits of a certain rationalization of the world. | By Eléonore Hughes...
May 13, 2024 · Synopsis. About this title. About this edition. In 1927, Henry Ford, then the richest man in the world, bought a 5,000 square mile-tract of land in the Brazilian Amazon. There he was going to build a rubber plantation. But Ford wanted more than just rubber.
Jan 16, 2020 · For political administration, Brazil's 26 states—and the Federal District (Distrito Federal, Brasília)—are divided into five different regions. The name of each of the Brazilian states below is preceded by its commonly used two letter abbreviation.
