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The U.S. had learned a lesson: Brazilians often know more about their own country than foreign "experts" do. The U.S. Rubber Development Corp. raised the price of "Acre-fine" wild rubber from 45-c- to 60-c- a lb., handed over supervision to the Brazilian Government. Jungle-baffled Americans had got less rubber out of Amazonia than they had hoped. Native rubbermen predicted that jungle-wise Brazilians, seeing a profit in the higher price, might beat the record production of the rubber boom 32 years ago.

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