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Then there was the question of paper: our first consignment from stateside-40 tons-was mysteriously shunted from the sidewalk in front of the printers to Bilibid Prison and then to a windowless warehouse near the Pasig River. When we finally got most of it back our Manila staff took turns guarding it day and night; it was worth $75,000 on the black market...
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...
...this has given Manila Production Chief Bob Mattoch and Far Eastern Manager Bernard Clayton plenty of new grey hairs-but in spite of everything they managed to run off 10,000 copies of our Oct. 1 issue in our own plant (total print order: 35,000) and 16,000 copies of Oct. 8. The schedule calls for 70,000 Manila-printed copies next week and steady increases to 100,000-so the 550,000 U.S. troops still in the Philippines can get their copies while that same issue is still on the newsstands at home...
...yesterday, in a crummy, crowded room at Etampes, France, Pfc. Joe Weston, A.U.S., listened to a bored speech by a bored 2nd lieutenant, finally got a brown manila envelope full of papers and heard himself called Mister Weston for the first time in 40 months...
...Philippines, the first weak steps along the road of reconstruction were taken. In bombed and burned Manila the Rotary Club began its weekly Thursday luncheons. In the Manila Hotel socialites and dressmakers staged the capital's first fashion show and ball since 1941 against a background of charred greystone walls. The Islands' top dressmaker, Ramon Valera, turned out 24 gowns in two weeks (with material at $50 a yard), then collapsed from overwork. The first trickle of civilian goods had arrived from the U.S., tumbling black market prices 50%. And the Islands had shipped their first large load...