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Hmmm. In San Francisco, Dr. Robert C. Miller, director of the Steinhart Aquarium, excitedly opened a shipment of Hawaiian fish, was considerably let down to find a bunch of humuhumuhiukole; he had ordered humuhumunukunukuapuaa...
Army and Navy reconnaissance planes from Oahu kept Hawaiian yachting fans posted as the boats approached. The night the leaders were expected in, hundreds of Hawaiians watched all night from the shore. At 1:52 a.m., amid shouting and honking of horns, the first sail loomed into the searchlight beam that marked the finish line. It was William L. Stewart Jr.'s big yawl Chubasco. But Chubasco, though first to finish, was not the winner. Yachting handicaps are logarithmically calculated by a complicated formula involving length, sail area, etc.; and Chubasco had a small handicap. More than ten hours...
...Radio-Ham Barnes was talking to surgeons attached to Hawaii's Hickam Field, getting more instructions. When a rescue plane and an Army surgeon arrived five hours later from Hickam, they found that Radioman Buster Bailey was still holding on. By nightfall he was resting comfortably in a Hawaiian hospital...
...first Hawaiian statehood bill was introduced in Congress in 1920, but never before reached a vote in either the House or Senate...
...called big five are five companies acting as agents for the Hawaiian sugar plantations in the transportation and marketing of sugar, procurement of supplies and machinery and other matters. They are American Factors, C. Brower & Co., Alexander & Baldwin, Castle & Cooke, and Theo, H. Davis...