Word: hawaii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whereabouts of the nation's first line of defense. "Confidential." Except for bare statistics, official Naval announcements about the maneuvers had been unprecedentedly vague and guarded. The operation would last until June 10, said the Navy, cover 5,000,000 sq. mi. in the "Pacific Triangle" between Hawaii, Puget Sound, the Aleutian Islands. Fifty thousand men would take part on 160 vessels, in 450 planes. Potent newcomers to the Fleet would be the battleship Idaho, just modernized for $14,000,000; the Ranger, first U. S. aircraft carrier built as such from the keel up; five more heavy "treaty...
Lawyer Neylan has never lost a jury trial (he refuses criminal and divorce cases), has lost only one case of great importance. That was a $10,000,000 suit by H. Hackfeld & Co., German sugar growers in Hawaii, whose property had been seized and reorganized by the Alien Property Custodian...
...American Clipper lifted easily from the waters of San Francisco Bay. headed out through the Golden Gate under a brilliant mid-afternoon sun. The world's first transport plane designed specifically for transocean service was finally on its way over the Pacific to Hawaii on the first stage of Pan American Airways' projected 8,000-mi. ocean airway to China. Four years of intensive work had prepared this ship and this crew for this flight...
...ambitious program of radio debates. The first long distance broadcast was in 1928 with Oxford. Since then there has been almost yearly trans-Atlantic discussions. There was one this year, and in addition a week ago the longest broadcast debate in history was held with the University of Hawaii. Three clashes of smaller magnitude occurred some time ago with the Knights of Columbus, Dartmouth and Stanford. That the debates have been a success has been amply proved by the large correspondence received from the listeners following each performance...
...sugar, that are back of the cry for statehood. Showing that the population was only one-ninth Caucasian and that the high birth-rate of the Japanese pointed towards further Japanese preponderance, the Debating Council brought the discussion to a close in claiming that the granting of statehood to Hawaii would exclude American influence and the island soon would be in the hands of the Japanese...