Word: caning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 on the islands...
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...
Tardini summoned tall, bent Monsignor Giulio Guidetti, administrator of Holy See property. Hobbling in on his cane, Guidetti said yes, he had supplied loans to the industrialist, but had taken no commission whatever. He had handed the money to Monsignor Cippico as directed in orders signed by Tardini and Monsignor Giovanni Montini, Substitute Secretary of State...
...rich fields of northern Argentina, sugar cane grows as high as an elephant's eye, and avocados are as big as coconuts. But the great world port of Buenos Aires is 1,000 miles to the south, and the towering Andes have always blocked the shortcut route west through Chile to the Pacific. For three-quarters of a century, the people of the region have loudly demanded a trans-Andean railway; for more than a quarter of a century they have been building it. Last week they had it. A coca-chewing Indian had slung a sledge, a last...
...fights old age. He still goes elk hunting (in a jeep), deliberately loses the cane he was forced to adopt, still smokes 30 cigarettes a day (they are specially rolled for him by one Mrs. Matilda Granditzky, of Sweden's tobacco monopoly). Recently he demonstrated his favorite acrobatic trick to his gasping entourage: sitting on a chair, he lifted both legs and placed his feet behind his ears...