Why did Henry Ford build a city in the Amazon?
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Why did Henry Ford build a city in the Amazon?

Jul 21, 2010
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Anxious to control his own rubber company, Henry Ford built a utopian community in the midst of the Amazon. In this episode, Katie and Sarah explore the construction of Fordlandia, the life of its inhabitants and what eventually went wrong.

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