Word: hamakua
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...Dwight's son, bushy-bearded, one-armed Henry Baldwin (he lost the other arm in a cane-mangler) who built the Baldwin dynasty. He went partners with Sam Alexander, son of another missionary. At a cost of $80,000 and harrowing effort, Henry built the 17-mile-long Hamakua Ditch to bring irrigation to the cane fields. With son Frank, he once swam a flooded gulch in order to get to church. Through such God-fearing boldness, coupled with Yankee-trader shrewdness, the business prospered, became one of the "Big Five"* which reach across the biggest part of Hawaii...
...helped. Last week's merger, said Baldwin, would 1) wipe out duplicate bookkeeping and other management functions, 2) make for a more efficient distribution of the 400 million gallons of water which another Baldwin-controlled company annually sends through the irrigation system started by old Henry's Hamakua Ditch...
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