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...Guadalupe, long ago, a peon named Juan Diego beheld a miraculous vision of the Virgin. Near that spot last week, a visionary Mexican industrialist, Antonio Ruiz Galindo, was starting an experiment that may likewise prove miraculous: a factory community, La Ciudad Industrial (the Industrial City). Mexican leaders and U.S. businessmen interested in Mexico are watching closely...
...Rudolfo Saldana Ruiz, a Mexican who had bought up the majority stock, the Tilletts' departure with the plant equipment looked like outright stealing; he got a warrant for their arrest. But the sheriff, who must catch the Tilletts in the state where the moving operation took place, has so far failed to serve the warrant. The boys travel incognito...
...order the demolition of a few houses to get nails and lumber used-on new construction. Plenty of lumber was also needed for coffins." Jap Interruption. Eventually Ruiz had Pathfinder running smoothly, and was producing five to seven tons of rubber a month. But not before more trouble...
...last January, the plant was working again, and there was money for the payroll. To make up for lost production, Ruiz worked the plantation on a seven-day week, kept going even when the Kabasalan River went on a rampage, flooded the plantation, ripped out bridges, and filled the smokehouse with muddy water...
...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...