Word: hilo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last month in Hilo (pop. 23,000), on the island of Hawaii, a 35-year-old ex-G.I. named Woodrow Dodds, from Tiffin, Ohio, found himself out of a job. He had been one of no workers discharged when the island's only modern laundry closed. As dirty laundry piled up in Hilo's houses, hotels and hospitals, Dodds got an idea...
...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...
...days later the clean laundry was back in Hilo. Soon Dodds had more business than he could handle. By last week the Dodds Laundry and Dry Cleaning Service was handling some 3,000 Ibs. of laundry and 50 suits a day at slightly higher prices than those of Hilo's closed laundry. A shirt cost 27?, against the old price of 23?, but sheets, at 10?, were the same. Dodds is currently grossing between $5,000 and $6,000 a month, netting...
Change of Pace. In Hilo, Hawaii, Dr. William F. Leslie, after losing 1) one automobile in a tidal wave, 2) his second car in a storm, 3) his third new car in a dock accident, announced that he was in the market for a horse & buggy...
Meanwhile, the strike of 28,006 sugarfield workers spread a pall over all commerce, trade and finance. In Hilo (pop. 23,353), drug sales dropped as much as 30%; dry goods, 33%; auto service, 60%. Plantations lost an estimated $21 million of business; workers lost almost $8 million in wages. Acres of unattended cane, which must be irrigated to survive, withered in the hot Hawaiian sunshine, and the world lost 180,850 tons of raw sugar. Estimates of the time it will take to put plantations back on production schedules ran up to four years...