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...State Department feels it is so important to show the Sudan a successful private enterprise industry that it is arranging to fly a delegation of government leaders to Hawaii to see how U.S. methods produce 88 tons of sugar cane per acre (five times the Cuban average). Sugar International thinks that opportunities to set up new sugar industries are virtually unlimited, is studying prospects in Jordan, Ghana, Kenya, Angola, Tanganyika and Uganda...
Trouble in Paradise. Few Hawaiians ever thought they would see the day when sugar planters would want-or need-to look beyond their own verdant cane fields. In the old days, sugar planters dominated Hawaii's economic, political and social life. But in the last 20 years, sugar's share of the Hawaiian gross product dropped from...
Along his path Dr. Jarvis has developed a scunner against high-protein diets, cane sugar and wheat bread (he prefers rye or corn). He has also picked up some vague racial ideas-that Americans should eat the same types of diet as their European ancestors, whether Nordic, Alpine or Mediterranean. Thus Nordics are urged to "live out of the ocean," eschewing good red meat and chewing fish instead...
These men are laborers used by the U.S. armed forces for minor construction work in 1945 on the island of Tinian. Most of them were of Korean descent, transported to the Marianas for use in the sugar-cane fields. I admired their ability to squat all day while shaping the coral for the dwarf wall they were building. Even during their rest period they would hunker, sophisticated style...
FORMOSA Ten Years Later One bitter December afternoon in 1949, as the Communists swarmed down through southwest China, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, wearing a long Chinese gown, a grey felt hat and carrying a cane, gravely took leave of the officers who were remaining behind, and took off in his C-54 for a seven-hour flight to his last place of refuge, Formosa. He found little but desolation. U.S. air raids had shattered the efficient Japanese-built factories, and food production was sagging. Morale was at its lowest ebb, for few Formosans had faith in the Nationalist government that...