Word: carabaos
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Siam's incredible cheerfulness did not stop at Bangkok. It spread across the whole funnel-shaped country of 18 million people-to the farmers slogging behind lumbering carabao in the knee-deep water of the rice paddies, and to the tappers working their way down long, slanting rows of rubber trees...
Later, José wrote to one of his old pals of the 43rd, ex-Sergeant F. Allen Shippee, who now manages an ice plant in East Providence, R.I. José said that he wanted to come to the States to study agriculture, and would sell his carabao to pay for it. Shippee put up bond to permit him entry into the U.S. as a nonquota student, and fixed up a room for him in the Shippee home. Last week, Little Joe, with $32 in his pocket, arrived in Providence. For his old friends in the 43rd, he had brought along...
...Interisland shipping has been slowly reconstructed, although beef from southernmost Mindanao is still being flown to Manila because of the lack of refrigerator ships. A thousand surplus tractors have helped boost carabao-geared farm production; the Filipinos are now nearly self-sufficient in food. There is no threat of cholera, which daily kills scores in Bangkok ; no plague, which continually ravishes part of China. Three million children, compared to a prewar two million, are back in school. Driving through Mindanao, I was amazed at the number of schools. Communal problems there are small. Said one Mohammedan datu (chieftain...
...loyal, excitable, bright, fiercely jealous and brave. Eighty percent of him live in raised, thatched, nipa-palm huts. He rises each damp dawn to blow his breakfast fire to life and smoke a rolled "toosh-toosh" (homemade cigar). Every day he faces hours of weary plowing behind his lazy carabao (water buffalo). He beefs about the land still held by the Catholic Church, his taxes, the reformed constabulary, the Chinese who are his shopkeepers, and about his fortunes-which he often hocks for a sensational funeral or wedding...
...Archibald Clark Kerr, Britain's special envoy to Indonesia, time dragged as sluggishly as a sick carabao. While he waited for Indonesians and Dutch to get together, the Ambassador visited Surabaya, where tall, mustachioed Major General Eric Mansergh, Commander of the Fifth Indian Division, invited him to give British troops a lecture about Russia...