Word: hawaiian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tying for probably the longest distance covered are Dudley C. Lewis and family and Hart de Wit Wood. Both groups are from the Hawaiian Islands...
...stepped up to the Grace Line board chairmanship vacated by W. R. Grace & Co. President J. Peter Grace Jr. (Grace gave up the title to free himself for the diversified operations of the parent company.) Lapham comes by shipping naturally: his grandfather was co-founder of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., his father was onetime president and board chairman. Brooklyn-born, Lewis Lapham grew up in San Francisco, went East to school (Hotchkiss and Yale '31), worked as a ship news reporter for the San Francisco Examiner before he joined the family firm. During World...
Rikitake now considers his theory pretty well proved, and he hopes that it will be used to keep tabs on basaltic volcanoes all over the world. Among these are Japan's Mount Fuji, the volcanoes in the Hawaiian Islands and Mount Vesuvius...
...Hawaiian Airlines insisted that discrimination against Asians was entirely a wartime, military measure. To get the technological jump on Trans-Pacific it replaced four of its old DC-35 with five new, 284-m.p.h., 44-passenger Convairs, costing upwards of $600,000 apiece. Trans-Pacific counterattacked by having its hostesses do hula dances aloft, set up a charge-account service, pioneered cut-rate family fares...
...decision last week, CAB thought that one answer would be for Hawaiian Airlines to get rid of its expensive new Convairs. But H.A.L. has flatly refused to do so, said the planes will eventually be cheaper to operate. Says H.A.L. President Arthur D. Lewis: "There is no more reason for continuing to fly obsolete equipment in Hawaii than anywhere else in the United States...