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...Including Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands...
...every 15 minutes from dawn to dusk a DC-3 takes off from or lands at Honolulu Airport for a flight around the islands. Businessmen fly from one island to another for lunch; housewives fly into Honolulu to shop; planters commute by air between farms and cities. Islanders call Hawaiian Airlines, Ltd. the "trolley line." Next week Hawaiian Airlines, with two more DC-3s added to its fleet of eight, will step up its flights from...
Though it is one of the smallest airlines under Civil Aeronautics Board supervision (the terminal points of its network covering the six main islands are only 350 miles apart), Hawaiian Airlines' trolley tactics have made it one of the most consistent moneymakers among U.S. lines. It has been in the black all but one of the last 14 years, and last year earned $186,469 on a gross of $3,353,910. It is also one of the safest lines under CAB, having carried 1,300,000 passengers 200,000,000 miles without a fatality...
After his father retired, Stan got Inter-Island to give planes a try. He started in November 1929 with two eight-passenger Sikorsky Amphibions. In 1941 Hawaiian bought three Douglas DC-3s, just in time to cash in on war traffic. All Inter-Island's passenger boats were put into troop service, so civilians had to use Hawaiian Airlines to get from island to island. Hawaiian also flew food from outlying ranches into Honolulu, and when Hilo's main laundry closed down (TIME, May 12, 1947), provided two-day service from a laundry on the island of Maui...
...National Defense Mediation Board, later on the War Labor Board. As mayor, he had put San Francisco's needs ahead of politics, had rammed through city purchase (for $7,500,000) of the Market Street Railway. He had been president, later board chairman, of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. for 18 years...