Word: hawaiian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...room hotel is being laid. In Manila, Tokyo and Bangkok a network of agents are investigating new business opportunities. Masterminding this transpacific wheeling and dealing is stocky, cigar-chomping Chinn Ho, 57, the prototype of Hawaii's newest business phenomenon: the self-made, fast-moving Hawaiian millionaire of Oriental descent...
...generations, Hawaii's business community was tightly controlled by the islands' haole (Caucasian) first families through a web of interlocking marriages and directorates. With clerkships the top jobs offered to them by most haole firms, Hawaiians of mixed blood turned to running hui-syndicates in which one astute businessman administers the pooled resources of the members. So successful a hui manager was Chinn Ho that he cracked Hawaii's bamboo curtain and gained a toehold in the haole establishment; he was the'first Oriental named a trustee of one of Hawaii's landed estates...
...became a customers' man. With his shrewd head for finance, Ho began to supervise a number of hui; he speculated in Philippine real estate, bought Waikiki land for as low as 40? a square foot. During World War II, he stepped up his operations, bought up choice Hawaiian land put on the market by islanders fearful of Japanese invasion...
...mite to making this Broadway's flabbiest season in years. About equally lavish and leaden, 13 Daughters takes place in 19th century Hawaii and stars Don Ameche as an amiably wily Chinese millionaire with 13 daughters to marry off. If that is not trouble enough, there is a Hawaiian custom that no daughter can marry till the eldest does, and a Hawaiian curse that none of Ameche's shall marry at all. Before the ban gives way to the banns, there is a lot of Hawaiian -or Hawaiian-type -music and dancing, and sighing and song, and love...
...studied the eating habits and coronary death rates of middle-aged Japanese-in Japan, Hawaii and California. The native Japanese, he reports, get only 13% of their calories from fats. They eat a high-carbohydrate diet of rice, fish and vegetables, have an average cholesterol count of 120. The Hawaiian Japanese, on the other hand, also eat fish, along with meat, eggs and dairy products; they get 32% of their calories from fats, have an average cholesterol count of 183. The Los Angeles Nisei's diet is typically American; they get 45% of their calories from fatty foods...