Word: hilo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hilo, Hawaii...
...when the city of Hilo, Hawaii was threatened by Mauna Loa, a local princess was called to the rescue. Mumbling an incantation, she threw a hunk of her hair into the onrushing lava and stopped it right on the outskirts of town. In 1935 the U.S. Army substituted TNT bombs for hair, and tried the same stunt -with about the same result...
...along the coastal slopes near Hilo, Vice President Robertson ran into trouble. Remembering their costly, 79-day strike of 1946, many sugar workers were bitter at Robertson's call for "an army of strikers." He lectured them sternly: their attitude that "the bosses are all right" was "dangerous thinking...
Last week Robertson's war talk blew up in his face. At a meeting in Hilo, 50 delegates representing about 4,000 sugar workers voted to secede from the I.L.W.U. and form an independent union...
...secession caught the I.L.W.U.'s leftist leaders in Hawaii by surprise. Jack Hall, Bridges' lieutenant in Hawaii, was in San Francisco, presumably talking strike strategy with his boss. Union organizers scampered to Hilo, tried to persuade the 4,000 secessionists to reconsider their stand. But at week's end the rebels were standing firm, and the revolt in the canebrakes threatened to spread. If it did, Harry Bridges might be in for an entirely different sort of war from the one he had planned for Hawaii...