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...Reward, Macao's largest gambling establishment...
...Macao (RKO Radio), set on the Portuguese island of that name off the coast of Hong Kong, appears to be inhabited by characters who bear a striking resemblance to the types that populate the never-never land of moviedom. On hand are a sultry nightclub singer (Jane Russell), an intrepid adventurer (Robert Mitchum), and an American cop (William Bendix) who is rubbed out while running down the sinister proprietor (Brad Dexter) of the Quick...
Down off the southern coast of China, about an hour and a half from Hong Kong by small motor launch, sits the little island of Macao. It gets wet in the rainy season and hot in any season. Its population is more varied than that of New York City. For years it has been a noisy, busy trading center through which the West did business with the East, and both made money. No adventurer worth his 38 hasn't been there sometime. Along the South China coast they say that all roads lead to Macao. It seems a shame that...
Gold Net. The man behind Macao's prosperity is a shrewd, wiry Portuguese-Dutch-Malay named Pedro J. Lobo, who runs Asia's largest gold market in Macao and in fact runs Macao also. Lobo lives well, and in his spare time composes music (including an operetta called Cruel Separation). Lobo's title is economic director of the colony. On each ounce of gold, most of which arrives on Catalina flying boats owned by Lobo, he levies two taxes: an official one of 35? for the Macao treasury, another of $2.10 for himself. This has netted Lobo...
...swimming pool-equipped Villa Verde on Macao's outskirts, Lobo shrugged off questions about the propriety of the trade. Just throwing a few crumbs to the Reds to keep them off his neck, he explained, recalling that during World War II he had stood the Japanese off, for the Allies' benefit, in similar fashion. But Macao's aid to Mao is more than crumbs, and even crumbs are important to a regime hungering for war materials...