Word: hawaiian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sooner did the Vagabond reach Honolulu and became friendly with Shirley Temple than he flew north and west to Kauai, advertised by The Hawaiian Tourist Bureau as the "Garden Isle." There were not many gardens, as far as he could see. Then again he could see little but what the native Louis pointed out from the depths of a Model A which rattled as if it had been to Pike's Peak and busted. Louis was a years character; he had twelve children and eleven years of marriage. "One each year of wedlock," he said, ignoring the first born. Louis...
...return to Chase and Hutchins, Arriving in San Francisco, they boarded the "Colorado" and were soon headed in the direction of the Hawaiian Islands. On one of their off afternoons at the islands, the boys were basking on the sands of Waikiki beach. A newsboy appeared, shouting the fact that Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were lost. Chase and Hutchins were sorry, but they went right on basking, little realizing what was to happen...
After 23 days at sea, during which time they had been ashore only at the Hawaiian islands, the search was abandoned. It was abandoned partly because the order came to that effect and partly because, according to Chase, "the sailors wanted very much to go ashore...
...concert singers of the day. By midwinter Captain Tobias was beating his way around Cape Horn. In January 1866 his anchor dropped in Honolulu's Pearl Harbor. The following months, refurbished and provisioned, the Libelle splashed out of Honolulu with the evening tide, sailed westward into the flaming Hawaiian sunset on the last lap of her 19,000-mile journey to Hong Kong. She was never seen again...
...Hawaii pays more income tax than any of 16 States. But last week U. S. citizens in those islands feared that the House of Representatives regarded them as mere colonies. Whereas New York or Georgia might refine all the sugar they could get their hands on, the House restricted Hawaiian refiners to 3%, Puerto Rico refiners to 16% of their own sugar which they produce for consumption on the mainland. This action Congressman Maury Maverick compared to declaring that "cotton grown in North Carolina couldn't be made into towels there...