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...statehood bill, said he, guarantees "Harry Bridges fwo seats in the Senate and two in the House . . . Statehood at this time would only serve to deliver the Hawaiian state government to the Communist Party on a silver platter...
...spoke from the well of the House, Pillion stood beside a huge bulletin board thumbtacked with clippings about Hawaii's Communists. Pointing at the clippings with an accusing finger, Pillion cried: "The last session of the Hawaiian legislature was a Communist holiday...
Pillion has never been to Hawaii-and does not intend to go. He recently explained to the House Rules Committee that he fears Hawaiian hospitality would make him change his mind about statehood. But he nonetheless considers himself something of an expert on the subject. Said he to a newsman last week...
...Civil Aeronautics Board last week, the actions of Hawaiian Airlines were little short of outrageous. The CAB flatly accused the airline of using its Government subsidy money to try to throttle competition from smaller Trans-Pacific Airlines in the rich short-haul market around the Hawaiian Islands. To call a halt, the board overruled the recommendation of its examiner and cut back H.A.L.'s requested $1,300,000 mail pay for 1955 by 85%, leaving only...
Until 1949, Hawaiian Airlines was Hawaii's only scheduled interisland airline, and it had made money for six years without a Government subsidy. Starting in 1929 with two eight-passenger Sikorsky Amphibians, it had added a fleet of 13 dependable, twin-engined DC-35, carried 304,000 passengers annually (without a fatality). H.A.L. passengers had some gripes; they wanted to smoke aloft, complained of too few ticket offices, and charged that H.A.L. discriminated against Asians. In 1949 CAB decided that H.A.L...