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...first shipment of crude rubber from the Philippines 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...
...Mateo Ruiz had never been more than a paper-shuffler at Pathfinder, knew almost nothing about the technical side of rubber-growing, curing and production. But an order was an order. He went to work on Dec. 8, 1943, well within hailing distance of roving bands of Japanese troops...
...letter to Commander Dealey's family, Vice Admiral C. A. Lockwood Jr., Pacific Fleet commander of submarines, wrote: "Sam will go down in history as the greatest officer in his line that the Navy has ever known." Said Commander Dealey's wife, in San Mateo, Calif.: "There is nothing much...
...Mateo, Calif...
...there and can we get water?" "Yes," said the Indian. Then a mate who had had some experience with Indians took a hand. "Does the pink, pot-bellied ostrich live on that island?" he asked. "Yes," said the Indian. "And are you a - damned -of a -?" asked the enraged mateo "Yes," said the Indian...