Word: hawaiian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acre for acre, the red lava soil of Hawaii is the richest sugar land in the world. Two of Hawaii's biggest sugar plantations, on the island of Maui, are Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., Ltd. and Maui Agricultural Co., Ltd. Last week, 70-year-old Frank Fowler Baldwin, ruling patriarch of Hawaii's potent Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd., combined the two companies in a $25 million merger. As a result, the new company, Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., Ltd., with 25,454 acres of cane land and a yearly output of 135,000 tons of sugar, becomes the largest plantation...
Schoolteachers sometimes let go. That's what Clara Inter did. She was a demure young Hawaiian schoolmarm, teaching English grammar to youngsters from the plantations. One day, while singing with a native chorus for some mainland tourists, Clara impulsively stepped out of line and let fly a few lyrics of The Cockeyed Mayor of Kaunakakai, She followed it up with a naughty burlesque of the hula...
...tourists were enchanted. Before she could say Liliuokalani, Clara was the barefoot toast of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel and a great tourist attraction. But it took her ten years to catch on with the home-folks. Last week, as Hilo Hattie, Clara was Hawaii's No. 1 radio hit, and the talk of Polynesia...
Grinning, pumpkin-plump Clara, 46, is not the cinema ideal of a hula queen. One night at the Royal Hawaiian, to the distress of the management, she sang and danced a brazen number called When Hilo Hattie Does the Hilo Hop. Composer Don McDiarmid was aghast ("I had in mind a slender, beautiful Hawaiian maiden-and look at you"). But the cash customers wanted more. The song became her trademark, and Hilo Hattie soon became Clara's professional name...
...Abacus. Tall, California-born Ralph C. Coxhead, the company's tinkering board chairman, had never set out to start a lower-case revolution. A salesman of office machines, he once helped to get Hawaiian sugar growers to use mechanical calculators in place of the Chinese abacus. He did even better in New York, where, in partnership with his brother, Stuart (now president of the company), he set up Coxhead Corp. as an agency for German Mercedes calculators...