Word: cebu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somehow or other 108 of our 409 cases of printing equipment were offloaded by mistake on Cebu, 350 miles from Manila . . . two cases which showed up in our shipment turned out to contain typewriters . . . one press arrived so badly damaged it will be a total casualty for at least four months . . . and late in September we had to round up a whole new crew of printers when a polio outbreak quarantined all our plate-makers and pressmen...
Beer & Inflation. Only a start had been made. The big San Miguel Brewery was bottling beer and Coca-Cola, but the entire output was being taken by the Army. At Cebu the huge Government-owned Portland cement plant was nearing its prewar production, but was still unable to meet the demand...
...interest in the company. But it is still awaiting planes to resume flying. Procter & Gamble's Philippine Manufacturing Co. (soaps, lard, coconut products) does not expect to get into production until next spring. Most industrial plants were destroyed, along with the Islands' chief industrial cities, Manila, Cebu and Iloilo. Salvage work on plants which might be restored easily was hamstrung by the inflation which had shot wages and materials sky high...
...first boatload of relief supplies dramatized what was happening everywhere in the Philippines. Other 41st Division troops landed at Jolo, the old capital of the Sulu sultans, to take complete control of the Sulu Archipelago. Veteran units of the Americal Division hit the beaches at Bohol, between Leyte and Cebu. In southern Luzon enemy resistance collapsed under the blows of XIV Corps troops...
Sirs: My brother-in-law, Myron E. Brink, sent this letter written in lead pencil to be typed and sent to you. Mr. Brink was President of the Cebu Chamber of Commerce. . . . "After being starved, robbed, and kicked around for three years, we were rescued yesterday from the Los Banos Internment Camp. Yesterday we were to have eaten banana stalks. That was all and the Japs said there would be no more food. "About sunrise our planes came over, dropped paratroops and engaged our guards. The guerrillas also attacked, and during the fighting our tanks drove in through our prison...