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Spring Drives. In Salina, Kans., WAC Lieut. Linda Barnes drove her car to a garage, found the trouble was simply a bird's nest and three eggs on the motor block. In Los Angeles, Jessie Sachs's motor continued to hum after the ignition was turned off; under the hood was a busy swarm of bees...
Coconut Oil. Because most of the machinery at Pathfinder had been wrecked by the Japs, the guerrillas scoured the island until they found a dilapidated 30-h.p. Fairbanks Morse marine motor. Ruiz and helpers took the motor, hooked it to an electric generator. Then they had a power plant - if they could find some motor fuel. They could not - until they tried coconut oil. It worked...
...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...
Mateo Ruiz's word to Goodyear last week was that Jie expects production to soar, now that Zamboanga has been retaken by MacArthur's troops. It would help considerably, he said, if Goodyear would send him an outboard motor: it was needed to replace the rotted sail on the small boat used to collect food and coconut oil on Sibuguey Bay. Also, Manager Ruiz anxiously hoped that Goodyear officials would understand another item: due to inflation in the Philippines it had been necessary for him to raise his salary-to $150 a month...
Last week, the Packard Motor Car Co. showed how big the drop may be. Some of its cutbacks arrived in time to affect first-quarter earnings. Result: earnings dropped to $655,420 from last year...