DENIAL FROM FORD
Rubber-growing Continues NOT EVACUATING BRAZIL Detroit, February 3. The Ford Motor Company’s officials have made a categorical denial of the report that Mr. Ford is abandoning rubber-growing in Brazil. A message published yesterday stated that Brazil’s dream of the conquest of the Amazon jungles through the efficient exploitation of its rubber resources bv Mr. Henry Ford appeared to have collapsed. Advices from Para stated that Mr. Ford, after spending millions, was unable to combat the native anagonism to efficiency methods, and was giving up his experiment on the Tapajos River.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 112, 5 February 1931, Page 11
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93DENIAL FROM FORD Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 112, 5 February 1931, Page 11
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