Word: hawaiian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
This morning at Mass I saw a pink donkey with green ears, standing on its head. I hasten to add that it was on one of those lively scarves worn by young ladies. In other moments of distraction I have observed . . . Mahjong players, Hawaiian dancing girls, Sheiks and camels, not to mention film stars and dogs. I would suggest that the Spanish mantilla might be more seemly and beautiful...
...with considerable interest that I read your article concerning Farmer William L. Booth and the "Hoosier Hawaiian Air-A-Van" [TIME...
Packing the ukulele that a Hawaiian bunkmate had taught him to play, he was off to Constantinople. For the next two years the flotilla plied the Aegean and Black Seas. On every shore leave, Godfrey and his fellow musicians of "Admiral Bristol's Bobo Six" beat out their rhythms in Levantine dives and were paid off in free drinks and applause...