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Then Irving's soldiers hit strong Jap defenses on the road to Pinamopoan. The 24th took heavy casualties in a 50-ft. by 400-ft. defile, finally forced its way past Pinamopoan toward Ormoc. Veteran 7th Division troops advanced from the south toward Ormoc, where the Japs probably would make their last stand...
Pending the building of quarters on shore, Mr. Ford has sent to the Tapajoz River a large motor ship, Lake Ormoc, on which live the vanguard of his engineers, managers, experts. The Lake Ormoc, luxurious, has recreation rooms, a gymnasium, a hospital, a dentist, a tailor, a barber...
From Detroit, last week, sailed the motorship Lake Ormoc, carrying hospital equipment, an experimental laboratory, machine shop, refrigerating plant, provisions for two years. Its destination: Santarem, Brazil, a river port 100 miles north of Henry Ford's new 5,000,000 acre rubber plantation. In ten years, Mr. Ford's experts hope the plantation will yield 6,000,000,000 pounds of rubber annually, enough to make 1,000,000,000 Ford tires...