Word: hawaii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indigence, the amount paid to vary monthly by prorating among all certified pensioners the proceeds 20% :"transaction tax" (levied on every exchange of money for goods services.) The pensioners would be required to spend all their pension money each month before receiving more. Last week Dr. Townsend was in Hawaii studying a "gross income" tax of similar design instituted there in 1935 to increase the velocity of exchange...
...colonial lawyer and judge, who later received honorary degrees from Columbia and Oxford. Jumping another century, the Class of 1842 graduated 56 strong. This class lost several men in the Civil War. The best-known member was Stephen H. Phillips, who became foreign Minister of the old Kingdom of Hawaii...
...month for dispatches to the Seattle Star, and a companion who had studied spherical trigonometry and could qualify as a navigator. At Honolulu they parted. There Veteran Harry Pidgeon took Long out on the sea one Sunday afternoon, taught him how to plot his own course. In Hawaii, Long picked up as messmate 69-year-old William Loy, a retired one-eyed mail carrier from Minneapolis. The 3,300 miles to Tahiti were enough for Loy, but there Long shipped on a 15-year-old Tahitian, Timi, who had worked in the film Mutiny on the Bounty...
...came upon a vast patch of gasoline and oil, like rainbow-tinted gossamer rising and falling on the Pacific swells. She radioed her discovery to Manila. Airmen guessed that under the oil patch, in 5,000 fathoms, were 15 dead men and a handsome $450,000 airplane, the Hawaii Clipper...
...that since one of the passengers, a Jersey City, N. J. restaurant owner named Wah Sun Choy, was carrying money to China, was it not a case of Japanese sabotage? An investigator from the Bureau of Air Commerce started from Washington, with little hope of discovering anything. Meanwhile, the Hawaii Clipper'?, sister ships, the China Clipper and the Philippine Clipper, coolly flew their scheduled routes, passing each other in mid-Pacific...