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- Gravix, on 06/07/2009, -1/+20NPR, one of the last few sources of actual reporting.
- fury420, on 06/07/2009, -1/+15how does this look bad upon the modern day Ford motor company in any way?
I feel quite confident that one can criticize & laugh at the ill fated attempts by Henry Ford to open a rubber plantation in the Amazon rainforest back in the 1920s without it being an attack on Ford cars built 80 years later - mrpink.137, on 06/07/2009, -0/+13I had to keep checking to make sure that this wasn't the Onion.
- fury420, on 06/07/2009, -1/+12"Things went bad over simple stuff, like serving food. "Ford had very particular understandings about what a proper diet should be," Grandin says. "He tried to impose brown rice and whole-wheat bread and canned peaches and oatmeal — and that itself created discontent."
"But when a Ford engineer changed the way food was served — from wait service to cafeteria-style service — the workers rebelled. Angry workers destroyed the mess hall, pushed trucks into the river and nearly ruined the whole operation. It cost tens of thousands of dollars of damage, Grandin says."
a cafeteria stuffed with nothing but oatmeal, brown rice, whole wheat bread and canned peaches.... yeah, sounds like a recipe for disaster in the amazon - Zarimus, on 06/07/2009, -2/+13Nice troll.
- inactive, on 06/07/2009, -0/+10Talk about a megalomaniac.
- LightPhoenix, on 06/07/2009, -0/+8Now I want to visit Fordlandia's ruins.
- grimacebrown, on 06/07/2009, -2/+7Makes me think of Subaru's plant in Indiana sorta...
- Bkkgnar, on 06/07/2009, -0/+4I'd love to see pictures of what it looks like now.
- Dumbledorito, on 06/07/2009, -0/+4For someone who sits in front of a computer all day? Maybe. For someone working in a rain forest trying to run a rubber plantation? Not so much...
- proudazmommy, on 06/07/2009, -0/+3Wow, very interesting. I grew up in Dearborn, Michigan in the heart of Ford country and even worked for Ford Motor Company for several years and I had never heard of Fordlandia before now. Henry Ford was a very innovative man but like any inventor, he surely had his share of failures.
- johnkemp, on 06/07/2009, -0/+3you forgot to mention Nazi sympathizer.
- incubusbeatsall, on 06/07/2009, -1/+4Ford's own rapture.
- deathfix, on 06/07/2009, -0/+3The article forgot to mention that synthetic rubber was developed a couple of decades after Ford began his project. I think that put the final nail in the coffin of Fordlandia.
- musicformost, on 06/07/2009, -0/+3This article isn't complete without Johann Johannsson's breathtaking theme to Fordlandia:
http://www.imeem.com/artists/johann_johannsson/mus ... - Fallout911, on 06/07/2009, -1/+3What an amazing story, thank you for sharing this.
- ojasnet, on 06/07/2009, -0/+2another article with a few neat pics: http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=596
- buckrogers1965, on 06/08/2009, -0/+2I like the part where they didn't bother to bring in a botanist until 3 years into the project. I don't know about anyone else, but if I were going to invest millions into something I'd like an independent soil report at the very least.
- zephc, on 06/07/2009, -1/+3Nothing like feeding your hard-working workers a diet of low-protein gruel.
- CTK14A, on 06/07/2009, -0/+2Look for "Belterra" on this Brazilian travel page.
http://www.santaremtur.com.br/eng/mostra_passeio.p ... - Dumbledorito, on 06/07/2009, -1/+3Google searching Digg.com.
Libtard: 2980 results
Republitard: 414 results.
Facist is disqualified for being an equal-opportunity insult.
So which side is the more reasoned, again? - RAAFStupot, on 06/07/2009, -0/+2Reading the subject line, at first I thought this was about Harrison Ford in The Mosquito Coast.
- Layne, on 06/07/2009, -0/+2You can blame Ford's management skills all you want, but leaf blight would have destroyed such a large scale cultivation regardless.
- diggmeordie, on 06/07/2009, -0/+2The History channel had a 1 hour "history's greatest blunders" show dedicated to this. Pretty funny how he tried to apply the American assembly line philosophy to growing rubber trees with people who never knew basic agricultural techniques. Luckily for the jungle synthetic rubber was invented.
- jbmcb, on 06/07/2009, -0/+1> Pretty funny how he tried to apply the American assembly line philosophy to growing rubber trees with people who never knew basic agricultural techniques.
Not a problem inherent in the idea of the assembly line. Seems to work pretty well for the cocaine processors in Columbia. - Nudar, on 06/07/2009, -1/+2Sounds like healthy food to me.
- jbmcb, on 06/07/2009, -1/+1A LOT of people live off of brown rice. Not an appetizing diet, but there were lots of strange ideas about healthy diets back then. Heck, there still are.
- quirkopatra, on 06/07/2009, -7/+3Thanks...usually it's Republitard, Fascist...etc.
There's just too much out there about Henry Ford and his giant ego and undesirable capitalist bent right now, but timing is everything, I guess. - quirkopatra, on 06/07/2009, -20/+8OMG...seriously. I'm not reading this. We are using NPR to bash Ford now? The company that didn't take a bailout? Anyone else think it's weird to backbash Ford right now...on National PUBLIC radio? Yeah, don't buy a Ford...that guy was terrible...buy a car from government motors!
That's it. I'm getting a Ford.
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