Henry Ford’s Paradise Lost | A Man and His Machine | 1
Business Movers
Wondery
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Industrialist Henry Ford looks for a new way to supply his factories with rubber without having to pay the prices dictated by the global market. But his decision to build a rubber plantation deep in the Amazon Rainforest comes with a great many complications.
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| 0:00.0 | Wundery Plus subscribers can listen to business movers early and ad free right now. |
| 0:05.0 | Join Wundry Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. Wonder. It's June 1876 in Bellem, a port city in Northern Brazil and the gateway to the Amazon River. |
| 0:32.0 | British Explorer Henry Wickham stands on the dock beside the SS Amazonas, |
| 0:37.0 | a wooden-hulled cargo ship bound for England. |
| 0:40.0 | Henry shifts nervously, packed carefully into the cane baskets at his feet or 70,000 rubber seeds. |
| 0:47.0 | Rubber is a valuable commodity, but it's only grown in the Amazon. |
| 0:52.0 | Henry hopes to change that though. He journeyed to the heart of the |
| 0:55.6 | rainforest by pretending to be a botanist. Claiming that he wanted to study the region's |
| 1:00.3 | plants, Henry then convinced locals to help him accumulate enough seeds |
| 1:04.3 | to start a rubber plantation elsewhere. Now he just needs to get his precious cargo away |
| 1:09.4 | from Brazil without being caught. Henry turns as the captain of the SS |
| 1:14.4 | Amazona stomps down the gangplank from the ship. |
| 1:17.0 | Captain Murray is it? |
| 1:19.0 | George Murray, that's right. |
| 1:21.0 | The men shake hands. |
| 1:22.0 | Captain has a broad face that scorched pink by the tropical sun. |
| 1:26.8 | He picks at his burnt lips between sentences. |
| 1:28.9 | It's good to meet another honest Englishman out here. |
| 1:31.5 | How can I be of assistance? Well I find myself |
| 1:33.8 | in urgent need of safe passage back to England. I understand you're due to sale |
| 1:37.4 | today. Within the hour, though we are fully laden. The captain glances |
| 1:42.4 | down toward the baskets by Henry's feet. Henry |
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