Word: hawaiian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cream-colored, gold-trimmed Terrace Room of San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel last week, 500 stockholders of Hawaiian Pineapple Co., Ltd. (Dole products) sat in wide-eyed fascination. On the platform, in addition to a raft of dark-suited officers and directors, was a group of Hawaiian islanders decked out in bright and summery island garb. All were employees of the company; they were there to explain Hawaiian Pineapple's annual report to the stockholders...
...stood pretty Mrs. Ethel Akiyama, 35, a Multigraph operator who has been with Hawaiian Pineapple for 20 years. She wore a pineapple-patterned dress and a white carnation lei, and she was barefooted. Said she earnestly: "Business is a team of people. Some of the people are stockholders; some are employees . . . All do their part to make the business a success." Aloha-shirted Mitsuma Miyazaki, a union shop steward, cautioned: "Profits are not guaranteed . . . and so for future needs we have earmarked...
Maesaka, who played touch football for a Hawaiian base championship team during the war, ran back four interceptions for scores, as well as accounting for six more. "Flash" Flickinger passed for six and shared the receiving duties with Tim Nichols...
...facts, said the Senator, which conclusively showed a "strong and personal alliance between the Russian Soviet cause and the present Secretary of the Interior, who is now urging Alaskan statehood . . ." Schoeppel wanted it clearly understood that he was not arguing against Hawaiian and Alaskan statehood (which President Truman urged Congress last week to approve before it quits for the year). But if he was for it, why was he raising the cry of Communism? Before
...C.I.O., having set adrift eight Communist-line unions (totaling 700,000 members), last week put the last of its Red-led outfits over the side. Expulsion notices were served on the 5,000-member Marine Cooks and Stewards Union and the 75,000 West Coast longshoremen, fishermen and Hawaiian sugar and pineapple workers who are tied in with Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union...