Word: hawaiians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...market by the Wurlitzer Co., De Kalb, Ill. Like the Micro-TV, it operates on house current or a battery pack. With a 64-note keyboard, the all-transistor piano can be played via built-in loudspeaker or earphones (for silent practicing), has controls to vary the tone from Hawaiian guitar to vibraphone to glockenspiel. With case, bench, battery pack and earphones, approximate price...
...hour at the very time when low-wage countries, such as Formosa and Malaya, were invading the pineapple market. As a result, Hawaii's share of world pineapple sales fell from 78% in 1952 to 64% in 1960, and it is still slipping. Similarly, high labor costs restricted Hawaiian sugar sales to the protected U.S. market...
Better than Death. Not surprisingly, the Big Five, though still continuing to invest in Hawaiian projects, are increasingly looking for new fields abroad. Besides last week's Italian venture, Castle & Cooke has over the past six years built up a thriving fish-cannery business in Oregon; its Bumble Bee canned fish last year accounted for 38% of its $4,600,000 earnings. C. Brewer & Co. has set up cane plantations and sugar refineries in Ecuador, Puerto Rico and Iran. American Factors is developing 1,400,000 acres for agriculture in Australia and is experimenting with raising pineapples in Honduras...
...Some Hawaiians fear that the exodus of Big Five capital bodes ill for Hawaii's continued growth. Hawaii's economy, which has recently lost some of its zip, rests precariously on four principal sources of income-sugar, pineapples, tourism, and military spending. Any decrease in agricultural income without offsetting increases in tourism and military spending, would be a serious blow and critics of the Big Five argue that by taking their know-how abroad, the companies may actually help foreign producers to cut into Hawaiian pineapple and sugar sales. In rebuttal, defenders of the Big Five insist that...
Arthur Lyman was born on the island of Kauai, the youngest of eight children of a Hawaiian mother and a father of French, Belgian and Chinese extraction. When Arthur's father, a riveter, lost his eyesight in an accident, the family moved to the island of Oahu and settled in Makiki, a section of Honolulu. Arthur's introduction to music was on a toy marimba. Each day after school, Arthur's father put some old Benny Goodman records on the phonograph and locked Arthur in his room with orders to "play along with the records...