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Butter. The food supply was another source of worry. About 70% of Hawaii's food normally comes from the mainland, ten days' voyage away by freighter. Two years ago, when 241,000 acres of the rich land of the islands were planted in sugar cane, only 695 acres were used for rice, 76 for asparagus, three acres for grapefruit. Since Pearl Harbor, the islands have stored a six months' supply of food in case of siege. But meat is scarce...
Where the slim wahine (Hawaiian women) once strolled along the beach at Waikiki, barbed wire is looped in crazy, glistening coils. Soldiers with naked bayonets patrol the docks. Parks and schoolyards are scarred with fresh-dug trenches. Howitzers hide in the cane fields. Men sleep by their guns on the beach and in caves hollowed out of the mountains...
...place along the way we passed a band of Scottish Highlanders marching toward internment, blowing lustily all the while on bagpipes. A monocled officer led them, sporting a cane in place of his saber. Not one face carried a shadow of sadness...
...Bataan kept watching for him. Once in a while he would come around. Everything about him-the angle of his heavily braided cap, the swing of his brown, curve-handled cane, the uptilt of his long black cigaret holder, the shine on his four stars and brown shoes-everything was always jaunty. The men watched for his smile: they usually...
...Came To Dinner" is the funniest movie to come out of Hollywood since Charlie Chaplin abandoned his cane for a social consciousness. It's also so different and original that it's quite apt to gain the rather dubious distinction of being the herald of a new cycle of film comedies...