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![]() ![]() Paid a $100 prize! This quiz first posted on (02/27/08) ![]() ![]() This one-time quiet and out-of-the-way place exploded into prominence when a fast-growing industry's product was produced there. (It experienced a economic and population boom as a rubber producing center) ![]() ![]() This one-time quiet and out-of-the-way place returned to obscurity when a declining industry's product was suddenly less in demand. (Today this once prosperous city has less than 15,000 residents, and many still live in poverty) ![]() ![]() This South American city was one of the production centers for an elastic hydrocarbon polymer that naturally occurs as a milky colloidal suspension, or latex, in the sap of some plants. It prospered until a synthetic substitute was developed and most of the natural production shifted to Southeast Asia ![]() ![]() Cobija, Bolivia ![]() The first correct answer received was submitted by: ![]() Andrew Pecor, Alexandria, Virginia USA ![]() Copyrighted by the Woolwine-Moen group, d/b/a Graphic Maps. All Rights Reserved! ![]() Contact Us | Privacy Statement |
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