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...Francisco, American Hawaiian Steamship officials read a logbook entry made by Captain B. Leep of their S.S. Oklahoman: "Left Portland with 10 heifers, arrived Manila with 9 heifers, one cow and bull calf...
...more than six times the purchase price of the territory. Alaskans, alarmed by Japanese and Russian reaches toward the north, hope it is just a start, that before the fortification of the territory is completed the U. S. will have sunk as much in it as it did in Hawaiian defenses: about...
...speeches, Noguchi's big piece of steel, securely fitted in its niche in the A. P. Building's façade, was unveiled. Short, kewpie-faced Noguchi listened to the speeches, viewed his plaque, looked relieved. When it was all over he started for Hawaii, where Hawaiian Pineapple Co. (Dole pineapple) had offered him a three-month holiday...
Pele, goddess of volcanoes, was on a house-hunting expedition when she hovered one day over the Hawaiian archipelago. There, according to legend, she found her fancy, settled in the fiery crater of Kilauea, near mighty Mauna...
Pennypincher Byrd, citing this situation, took a vicious cut at the sugar lobby, moved to apply the general $10,000 limit to sugar producers. Crushed, 46-23, he tried for a $50,000 limit, was crushed again, 37-27. Only argument for the huge subsidies was fuzzy : that Hawaiian & Puerto Rican producers, stripped of their fat subsidies, might get miffed, abandon the control program, ruin small domestic producers; i.e., that benefits must be paid foreign producers to persuade them to let U. S. producers exist. No one could understand this; but the Senate has always understood the sugar lobby...