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There is the novel Fordlandia, written by Eduardo Sguiglia, an Argentine author. I read somewhere that Sguiglia had set out to replica Chanel watch write a non-fiction account, but the evocative nature of the tale led him to fictionalize the story. Its a great novel, but I thought perhaps this was one of those cases where history could be stranger than fiction.There was still plenty of unexplored territory in the world during Fords time. What do you think his motivation was for trying to set up a colony in the Amazon: exploration/adventure, industrial progress,

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The price of latex had collapsed. Yet Ford ignored advice and went forward anyway. And the more the project failed, the more he plowed more and more money into it. Ford was less motivated on laying control over yet another raw material as he was by a restless dissatisfaction with the way things were going at home. Ford, the man who unleashed the power of industrial capitalism by perfecting the assembly line, spent most of his life trying to put the genie back in the bottle, to tame the forces he set loose. He tried doing this by replica Louis Vuitton watch founding a number of so-called village industries in the U.S., small factories powered by hydroelectricity manned by mechanic-farmers.

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