Word: hawaiian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ozone & Indigestion. Nowhere will going ashore be the fun it used to be. In Honolulu, food is scarce, as are rooms in the newly reopened Royal Hawaiian Hotel (on famed Waikiki Beach); auto rental rates are $30 for the first day, $20 for each day thereafter. Yokohama and Kobe are cities of beaten peoples, littered streets...
...Hawaii, Krug advocated the final step. In the throne room of Hawaiian kings in lolani Palace, he promised to plead with Congress to grant statehood to Hawaii. President Truman, he said, would do everything he could to obtain it. The territorial legislature had just opened with a peculiarly Polynesian contribution to democracy in action-a hula orchestra with an outsize swaying dancer...
Firsts by Hawaiian Bill Kanakanui in the two sprints also kept the cadets in the fight until the Varsity's Jerry Gorman and Forbes Norris swept the 440-yard freestyle. All eyes were upon Norris in this last event before the relay, as his second finish over Navy Millar in this event clinched the outcome of the battle. Hence the surprise triumph of the 400-yard freestyle relayers Norm Watkins, John Watkins, Walt Bullard, and Bill MacVicar turned a one-point edge into a 15-point rout...
...Hawaiian reunion as well as some last times will be provided in the sprints, as Crimson's Captain John Watkins and his brother Norm will be struggling to say Aloha in these quickies to sailors Charlie Dwight and Bill Kanakanui. Most appropriately the latter's name is the island equivalent of big medicine...
...would make several million dollars out of it," said Earl Boden Wilson, president of California & Hawaiian Sugar Refining Corp. and an industry spokesman. "But the sugar industry would be blamed for years & years [for the high prices]." They didn't want that to happen...