Word: dili
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hawaii-born Chinn Ho started out as a bank messenger after graduation from high school, jumped to a brokerage house, studied the stock market reports so dili gently that he became a customers' man. With his shrewd head for finance, Ho began to supervise a number of hui; he speculated in Philippine real estate, bought Waikiki land for as low as 40? a square foot. During World War II, he stepped up his operations, bought up choice Hawaiian land put on the market by islanders fearful of Japanese invasion...