Word: kabasalan
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...since Pearl Harbor is presumably on the way to the U.S. this week. The amount is small-66,500 Ibs. But the story of how it was prepared, by Mateo Ruiz, 40-year-old chief clerk at Goodyear Rubber Plantations Co.'s 2,500-acre Pathfinder plantation at Kabasalan, on Zamboanga, was one to make businessmen beam...
...April 1944, the guerrillas and Japs fought a lively skirmish within sound of the plant. Next a Jap seaplane bombed and machine-gunned the nearby town of Kabasalan. When a rumor spread that the Japs were planning to attack Pathfinder, everybody took to the hills. With them they carried their priceless marine motor, and their stock of cured rubber...
...last January, the plant was working again, and there was money for the payroll. To make up for lost production, Ruiz worked the plantation on a seven-day week, kept going even when the Kabasalan River went on a rampage, flooded the plantation, ripped out bridges, and filled the smokehouse with muddy water...
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