Word: hawaiian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while last summer, it looked as if the kids might have found one. Calypso jounced and jingled into earshot, but in the end turned out to be loss lieder. Industry plotters pegged Hawaiian music for the next turntable fad, found the kids not in a hula mood. Rock 'n' roll faltered slightly when ballads (Love Letters in the Sand, Tammy) began catching on again, and a few of the U.S.'s disk jockeys report that ballads are continuing to cut into rock 'n' roll popularity. From staid Boston, WBZ's Bill Marlowe states flatly...
...acre Rudolphus Keene cattle ranch along the Saint Johns River. The buyer, whose holdings of Florida cattle land now total 360,000 acres: the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The huge ranch operation and the Mormons' dozens of other bustling business ventures − including a Hawaiian sugar plantation, cattle ranches in western Canada, two insurance companies and 72 buildings in downtown Salt Lake City −reflect the strong tradition of communal ownership begun in Utah no years ago. The Mormons (membership: nearly 1,500,000) have been criticized for their church's intense participation...
Today Ludwig is the sole owner of National Bulk Carriers, Inc., Universe Tankships, Inc., Seatankers, Inc., has a 58.7% interest in American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. To build ships for only $150 per d.w.t. (v. nearly $300 in the U.S.), he signed a lease on the old Imperial Japanese Navy shipyard in Kure in 1951 that runs to 1961, can be renewed to 1966. To fuel his fleet of more than 40 ships, which he sails with low-cost West Indian crews under the Liberian flag, Ludwig is building a 70,000-bbl.-a-day day refinery in Panama, also...
Last week one of See It Now's four full-time field teams (each consists of a reporter-director, cameraman, assistant cameraman and sound man) finished a job in Alaska for a show on Alaskan and Hawaiian statehood and flew to Tokyo to join Marian Anderson on a three-month tour of Southeast Asia. Two teams were finishing film for next week's show, The Great Billion Dollar Mail Case, a critical look into the U.S. Post Office. A fourth crew was filming in Europe. In Manhattan headquarters. Friendly pruned incoming footage for perusal by Murrow and began...
FIRST TELEPHONE CABLES from California to Hawaii will be laid under Pacific Ocean to supplement radiophone service. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and Hawaiian Telephone Co. are spending $37 million on two 2,400-mile cables, which by fall will carry 36 simultaneous conversations, permit direct dialing by operators between Hawaii and 6,500 U.S. communities...