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...rent control; prepaid health insurance at the state level; a permanent FEPC; the Taft-Hartley law (except for the anti-Communist and union press provisions); public power development; the U.N.; the Marshall Plan (conditioned on proof of mutual cooperation & self-help); equal attention to the problems of the Orient; Hawaiian statehood; universal military training...
Acre for acre, the red lava soil of Hawaii is the richest sugar land in the world. Two of Hawaii's biggest sugar plantations, on the island of Maui, are Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., Ltd. and Maui Agricultural Co., Ltd. Last week, 70-year-old Frank Fowler Baldwin, ruling patriarch of Hawaii's potent Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd., combined the two companies in a $25 million merger. As a result, the new company, Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., Ltd., with 25,454 acres of cane land and a yearly output of 135,000 tons of sugar, becomes the largest plantation...
Today the Alexander & Baldwin interests extend into shipping, hotels, communications, oil, banking, one-tenth of all Hawaiian pineapple, one-eighth of the island sugar. Since Henry Baldwin's death in 1911, the empire has been ruled by stocky Frank Baldwin (the Alexanders are no longer active in the management). Frank is training his own son, Asa, 40, to carry on. Last week, Asa moved into the new company as his father's second in command...
...Hawaiian sugar plantations are the world's most productive, but their costs have long been among the world's highest, too. They were increased by the organizing inroads of the C.I.O.'s Harry Bridges. Average pay for the industry is $8.10 a day. In a boom year like 1947, when Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar netted $2,200,000, Maui Agricultural $800,000, that was not an insuperable handicap. But recently world sugar has shown signs of returning to its "normal" condition of overproduction. The Hawaiian price has fallen from its wartime high...
Grinning, pumpkin-plump Clara, 46, is not the cinema ideal of a hula queen. One night at the Royal Hawaiian, to the distress of the management, she sang and danced a brazen number called When Hilo Hattie Does the Hilo Hop. Composer Don McDiarmid was aghast ("I had in mind a slender, beautiful Hawaiian maiden-and look at you"). But the cash customers wanted more. The song became her trademark, and Hilo Hattie soon became Clara's professional name...