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WASHINGTON, June 30--The House voted today to make the Hawaiian Islands a state and add a 49th star to the flag...
Johnson said he had once considered Hawaii an "outpost of Japan," but after a personal investigation is convinced "the Hawaiian Islands are an outpost of the United States...
California's American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. (the "AH Line") had a new president last week. But the name was old and familiar. Lewis A. Lapham, 38, is the lean, twinkling son of San Francisco's tubby, twinkling Mayor Roger Lapham (TIME, July 15) and grandson and great-nephew of Lewis H. Lapham and George S. Dearborn. Starting with a fleet of windjammers, his grandfather and Dearborn had built A-H into the biggest U.S. intercoastal steamship line. New President Lapham knew that his job was no sinecure: "I'm being thrown off the dock...
...line is long on cash (over $19 million liquid assets) and prestige, short on ships, and uncertain about the future. Before the war it confined itself to the coastal trade (the Hawaiian run was abandoned in 1917). But the war set it to operating War Shipping Administration ships all over the world. Now, with operating costs up 100%, A-H does not see how it can go back to coastal runs at present ICC-fixed rates. It is operating twelve vessels for the Maritime Commission. But this service may stop next July...
...hustled over to the Hawaiian Airlines, Ltd. office, learned that it cost 2? a pound to fly freight to Wailuku on the island of Maui, 126 miles away. Dodds hopped over to Wailuku and made a deal with Manager Joe Gehring of the Snow White Laundry to handle all the laundry Dodds could fly over. Then Dodds bought a used truck, rounded up all of Hilo's dirty laundry and had it flown to Wailuku...