Word: hawaii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sugar. Since Hawaii's chief industry is agriculture, since her No. 1 agriculture product is sugar and her No. 2 product is pineapples, since her chief manufacturing industries are processing sugar and canning pineapples, there is no doubt about who rules the territory, regardless of who happens to be holding forth in Iolani Palace. Most of these economic rulers, traditionally Republican, view the New Deal of their distinguished Democratic visitor with considerable apprehension, if not downright alarm...
...tons whereas the average annual production on the island for the last three years has been about 1,000,000 tons. They were still more chagrined when Congress, after upping the quota of mainland beet-sugar producers 100,000 tons above the President's request, left the quota for Hawaii to be fixed by Undersecretary of Agriculture Tugwell. In proportioning quotas between Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Philippines, Brain Truster Tugwell used the average crops of 1931-32-33 as figures for the other islands, but based Hawaii's quota on the years...
Tourism. But for one business favor every Hawaiian last week thanked the New Deal which supplied a traveling President to publicize the territory as a land for tourists. In 1929 nearly 22,000 people sailed four days and a half across 2,000 miles of Pacific Ocean to see Hawaii's famed hedges of night-blooming cereus, to lie lazily on its beaches, explore its volcanoes, taste its papaias and mangos, smell its fragrant pikake blossoms, listen to its ukuleles. For these and like blessings they left $11,000,000 behind, a sort of thank-offering which the Hawaiians gratefully...
...Eager to be thanked again on the 1929 scale, Hawaii made much of the delights to be offered to President Roosevelt and to any one else with $150 for round-trip steamship fare. One theme on which territorial boosters harped heavily: Hawaii is an integral part...
Every white, brown or yellow resident who hopes the New Deal will deal the islands four aces instead of a bobtail flush repeats those words. Hawaii is not a possession of the U. S., like Puerto Rico or the Philippines, but a territory like Alaska. Unlike Puerto Rico, which keeps all for itself, it pays into the Federal treasury income taxes, internal revenue taxes, customs' duties, has sent an average of $5,000,000 a year to Washington for each of the last 34 years. Its tax contribution is bigger than that of any one of 17 full-fledged states...