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...Dick Fowler (bursitis) and Bill McCahan (still shoulder...
Acre for acre, the red lava soil of Hawaii is the richest sugar land in the world. Two of Hawaii's biggest sugar plantations, on the island of Maui, are Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., Ltd. and 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...
...moderator, who presides at town meeting, was named first of all. This year he is again the town representative in the state legislature, Harrison Fowler. Then, the town clerk was elected. He is paid $300 per year for his job of recording deeds, collecting license fees, and in general keeping all town accounts. He is also given a percentage of the property taxes and the dog license fees for his trouble. But he must maintain the busy office in his own home...
...Angeles Turf Club's Charles Strub, who runs Santa Anita Park, was second ($541,412), well ahead of Mayer ($502,571). International Business Machines Corp.'s Thomas J. ("Think") Watson was fourth ($425,548). A new name was in fifth place: F. E. Fowler, president of liqueur-making Southern Comfort Corp...
There were only a few examples of the kind of industrial statesmanship that was needed to break the chain. Gambling that business would continue good, young Henry Ford II and International Harvester's Fowler McCormick both tried to help by reducing their prices. Both were forced to put their prices up again. It was not till year's end that another potent hand was laid on the chain. General Electric's Charles Edward Wilson announced that G.E. was cutting prices from 3 to 10% on about half its consumer products, an estimated saving...