Word: hawaiian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranch house, Mrs. John Carroll thought it was just an unusually bright Hawaiian moon, pulled the shades and went back to bed. Soon she awoke again, to the sound of a dull, menacing rumble. She fled in her nightdress, just before the stream of red-orange lava hit her house...
...Place, which looks out on the garden of Blair House (Harry Truman's bedroom is not much more than 50 feet away). William Steinberg, president of the pint-sized American Radio Association, was the prosecutor, and three C.I.O. union officers the judges. Bridges, accompanied by a gaudily shirted Hawaiian aide, argued back that all the charges were red herrings. Since a San Francisco federal jury had already decided that fiery Harry Bridges was a Communist, there seemed little doubt about the outcome...
...first number, the black-haired ecdysiast effects a white gown which can best be described as revealing. Against an artificial background of palm trees and jungle flora, Miss La Rose sings a song describing an ancient Hawaiian custom while passing out lcis to the fortunately-positioned occupants of box and front row seats. Miss La Rose's voice, her least attractive feature, is a sultry contralto. It serves the purpose, however...
...boss of Hawaii's biggest pineapple business, Henry A. White was surprised to learn that most of the Hawaiian Pineapple Co.'s 1,000 plantation workers on Lanai Island had never seen the company's cannery on Oahu, some 50 miles away. Checking up, White also learned that most of the cannery's 1,300 full-time workers had never seen the plantation...
Last week, White sent both groups touring, at a cost of more than $50,000 to the company. He rented a fleet of Hawaiian Airlines' DC-35 and started shuttling the cannery workers to Lanai, the plantation workers to Oahu. Both had a day's inspection trip, plus banquets, entertainment and pay. Plantation Worker Luis Espina, who had not been off Lanai Island in 17 years, gasped when he saw row on row of the cannery's machines core and peel 100 fresh pineapples a minute. Said he: "I never knew such things existed...