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In the 19th Century, Samuel Cunard wins a contract to deliver mail from Britain to North America by steamship - a new technology that will make transatlantic travel faster than ever before. His company goes on to become the Cunard Line. It will carry millions of immigrants to the new world, serve in two world wars, and dominate the transatlantic passenger business - until another new technology emerges to threaten the illustrious company’s future.

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Cunard’s business is devastated by the advent of the passenger jet airliner. The company’s unlikely savior is Basil Smallpeice, a senior airline accountant who moves to Cunard in the hopes of rescuing the ship he helped hole beneath the waterline.

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Basil Smallpeice navigates Cunard through a costly strike, while trying to ensure that the company’s new liner is completed on time. On the cargo side of the business, Basil looks for opportunities to expand - and finds them on the other side of the world.

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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A series of luckless managers try their best to fulfill Henry Ford’s ambitions for his Brazilian rubber plantation, but deadly diseases and an outbreak of violence in Fordlandia threaten to undo what little has been achieved so far.

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In the wake of the Christmas riot of 1930, another new manager arrives in Fordlandia. Archibald “Archie” Johnston brings a change of approach and starts to see progress across the site. But what he needs more than anything is the same as his predecessors: for the rubber trees to finally grow.

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