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...highest, too. They were increased by the organizing inroads of the C.I.O.'s Harry Bridges. Average pay for the industry is $8.10 a day. In a boom year like 1947, when Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar netted $2,200,000, Maui Agricultural $800,000, that was not an insuperable handicap. But recently world sugar has shown signs of returning to its "normal" condition of overproduction. The Hawaiian price has fallen from its wartime high of $126.40 per ton to $108, seems likely to tumble more. With this prospect, Hawaii's planters must somehow cut their costs. Increased mechanization has helped...
While Samborski doesn't seem too worried about the tour, he's not too happy about it, either. The team has been handicapped by a late start in out-of-door practices, and is not as well oriented as some of its opponents. And if lack of practice is not too big a handicap, a week of constant travel, most of it by bus, will not be much of an aid to smooth ball-playing either...
...spring trips the baseball and lacrosse men will be working under a handicap. Thanks to the warm sun, the southerners have been enjoying outdoor practice for two weeks more than the Crimson. With a fortnight's jump even a mediocre team can beat a better but unoriented group...
...almost eleven years. To many Americans he is almost unknown except as a legendary military man who had been one of the great captains of World War II, who had ruled the conquered Japanese, most of his countrymen assumed, with justice and magnanimity. If this remoteness was a political handicap, it was also a potential asset which could be realized if MacArthur chose to come and receive his conqueror's welcome...
...Iron-grey, Argentine-bred Talon charged from last place to first to nose out On Trust in California's $102,500 Santa An ita Handicap, the world's richest race. In Florida's Flamingo Stakes, the horse that is supposed to have the inside track on the 1948 Kentucky Derby - Citation -romped home by six lengths in near track-record time...