Word: baldwin
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Acre for acre, the red lava soil of Hawaii is the richest sugar land in the world. Two of Hawaii's biggest sugar plantations, on the island of Maui, are Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., Ltd. and Maui Agricultural Co., Ltd. Last week, 70-year-old Frank Fowler Baldwin, ruling patriarch of Hawaii's potent Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd., combined the two companies in a $25 million merger. As a result, the new company, Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., Ltd., with 25,454 acres of cane land and a yearly output of 135,000 tons of sugar, becomes the largest plantation...
Over the Gulch. The ancient Hawaiians had long grown sugar cane on the islands, but it was New England missionaries like Baldwin's grandfather Dwight (he came in 1831) who brought Yankee traders to commercialize it. It was Dwight's son, bushy-bearded, one-armed Henry Baldwin (he lost the other arm in a cane-mangler) who built the Baldwin dynasty. He went partners with Sam Alexander, son of another missionary. At a cost of $80,000 and harrowing effort, Henry built the 17-mile-long Hamakua Ditch to bring irrigation to the cane fields. With son Frank...
Today the Alexander & Baldwin interests extend into shipping, hotels, communications, oil, banking, one-tenth of all Hawaiian pineapple, one-eighth of the island sugar. Since Henry Baldwin's death in 1911, the empire has been ruled by stocky Frank Baldwin (the Alexanders are no longer active in the management). Frank is training his own son, Asa, 40, to carry on. Last week, Asa moved into the new company as his father's second in command...
Cried Roger N. Baldwin, director of the American Civil Liberties Union: "Such confused action as this creates justified criticism both here and abroad. The U.S. is on shaky ground in protesting the exclusion of U.S. journalists and others from foreign countries behind the Iron Curtain when we follow such methods here...
...Libertarian Baldwin right? Many a U.S. citizen wished he were surer.*By now the U.S. was pretty well convinced, on the evidence, that all Communists in a democracy are potential spies and traitors; but the U.S. was still doggedly determined not to treat even a known Communist as a spy or a traitor until he was caught redhanded. That frame of mind was doubtless a source of grim amusement to Communists, who are logical people...