HENRY Ford arrived in the Amazon not in person but in ambition, with an industrial giant intent on bending the rainforest to his will. What he built was bold, bizarre and doomed: Fordlandia, a ...
In the 1920s, Henry Ford attempted to build an American-style city deep in the Amazon rainforest to secure a rubber supply.
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In 'Crucible,' John Sayles, director of 'Eight Men Out' and 'Lone Star,' tackles the eventful life of Henry Ford.