Valentim Boucas, amiable financial adviser to President Getulio Vargas, was in Washington last week. He concluded an agreement which raised the price of wild Amazon rubber and shifted to the ...

The Brazilian subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company ... Despite the millions of dollars invested, the rubber tree plantations failed due to Ford’s ignorance. They were planned and executed ...

The recent revival of the rubber tapper trade in this impoverished northern Brazilian region has created ... dozens of natural rubber trees blend with centuries-old trees and palms typical of ...