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...were taking shape along the edge of Port-au-Prince's mountain-girt bay. The exposition with which Haitians hoped to crash the bigtime tourist business would be ready on time. A modern city bloomed on swamps where last year 15,000 Haitians lived in squalor. Between broad, flower-banked avenues stood half a dozen dazzling white official buildings that would serve later as government offices. Pavilions were rising for the U.N., the U.S., nine other countries...
...Dible. This blossom boom has been planted and cultivated chiefly by a fast-growing company called Flowers of Hawaii. Founded by Hawaii's Territorial Senator William H. ("Doc") Hill with the help of a fast-moving Los Angeles florist named Graham W. Dible, F.O.H. has sold some 5,700,000 orchids since 1946. This year the company hopes to sell 6,000,000 vanda orchids (a small flower about 2½ inches long), and gross about...
Pins & Packing. The flower company grows no orchids itself, buys them at 4? apiece from 428 island growers. It boasts that it is the "only firm in the world which can get an order for 50,000 vandas and ship them out the same...
...Flowers of Hawaii sells about 85% of its orchids for giveaways and other promotion stunts, but it is hard at work setting up "orchid bars" in U.S. stores to sell the flowers for as little as 25?. There are 21 orchid bars in the U.S. now; the newest one will open this week in Richmond, Va. While low prices have killed the vanda for the retail flower trade, Dible thinks that giveaway orchids are helping florists nevertheless, by making people who have seldom gone into florist shops more flower-conscious. Said one orchidman: "Why, eight out of ten women have...
Petals & Kisses. As the barge plied upriver, hundreds of shikaras (gondolas) milled around; their jampacked passengers wanted a good look, and they pelted Nehru with flower petals. Police in speedboats dashed back & forth, keeping shikaras at safe distance...