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Show B R I E F S . . . by Baukhage Doctors have been able to set up a health dispensary to serve workers in the promising rubber-producing Madre de Dios region of Peru as a result of flight service over the Andes. Cargo planes of the United States Rubber Development corporation corpora-tion are flying medical supplies, sanitation engineers, and doctors into the remote country east of the Andes. The Cuna Indian tribe of Panama has been persuaded to declare war on the Axis and has gone to work gathering wild castilloa rubber to help the United Nations defeat the enemy. Fifty million gallons of gasoline, fuel oils, lubricants and other petroleum petro-leum products are now going directly direct-ly to the fighting forces every day. |