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...Balchen and Parunak rested from this exploit, an Army patrol plane, with two men aboard, flopped down in a glacier canyon. One man was badly injured; there was no time for a two weeks' overland rescue. Four miles away was a lake. Its milky waters concealed rocks that could spell doom for a landing plane, but Pilot Parunak set his flying boat down, somehow, anyway. While Balchen and his rescue party trudged to the stranded patrol plane, Pilot Parunak sat up all night kicking icebergs away from his PBY. After this rescue, Parunak and Balchen gave themselves a name...
Behind the exploit was the patient labor of a tall, thirtyish, toothy assistant to U.S. High Commissioner Francis B. Sayre named Woodbury Willoughby. Willoughby gathered the treasure from Philippine banks, counted gold and silver, burned currency and securities after recording their serial numbers, then supervised its transfer...
...Commander Cassin Young, who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his exploit at Pearl Harbor. Blown overboard by an explosion, he swam back to his ship, climbed aboard and calmly maneuvered it to safety...
...reply: nobody-from Standard Oil to Jesse Jones-wanted to exploit synthetic rubber at 20? to 40? a lb. (except for minor specialty products), as long as natural rubber was available at about 15? a lb. A plant to make synthetic rubber costs $1,000 per ton of annual capacity; no private company could risk that kind of money while natural rubber was plentiful. Beginning in 1939, Standard Oil tried to get the Government to finance plants; it went to the Army and Navy Munitions Board, National Defense Advisory Committee, the Senate Military Affairs Committee and Banker Jesse Jones...
...dont think there is much chance of Japan attacking Russia through Siberia this spring," de Haas said. "It is to Japan's advantage to consolidate her position in the Pacific and exploit her conquests to get raw materials for her industry...