Word: honolulu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...folks, it's great to be here." With these words the flight for the $25,000 prize offered by James D. Dole, "pineapple king," ended at Wheeler Field, Honolulu. Arthur C. Goebel stepped out of his plane, the Woolaroc, and waved to 30,003 assembled under the clear blue Hawaiian sky. The small figure of a woman raced up to him, exclaiming: "God bless you, where is Martin?" She was Mrs. Martin Jensen, wife of a pilot in the flight. Two hours later Martin Jensen swung his Aloha down from Hawaiian sky, jumped out, into the arms...
Thus three entrants in the Dole Prize flight to Honolulu lost. Came criticism that greediness for the $25,000 prize and the $10,000 second prize was taking men into the air with inefficient planes. Airmen answered that all tests were under U. S. Department of Commerce supervision. Flyers in the race signed a last minute agreement to delay the start four days, to give opportunity for minuter mechanical overhauling, stricter sifting of entrants' abilities...
...Honolulu is tired of delay," said Flyer Clarke. "I don't much care if I am disqualified as a Dole entrant or not. I imagine if I get there first Dole will...
What, people wondered, would the great Postal Telegraph-Commercial Cable system, with its present monopoly of transpacific wire communication, do about the bigger & better Pacific cable, announced in project last fortnight (TIME, Aug. 15) by the Western Union Co.? The Commercial cable from San Francisco, via Honolulu to Shanghai can handle only 100 letters per minute. The proposed Western Union cable will carry 2,500 letters per minute. But it did not seem likely that Commercial would install improved equipment over the 9,100-mile route to meet its competitor. To do so would cost Commercial perhaps 16 millions...
Western Union engineers have long since completed their surveys of alternative routes for a new Pacific cable to carry 2,500 letters per minute. They can put it down alongside the Commercial Pacific sections from San Francisco to Honolulu, to Midway Island, to Guam, to Manila, to ShanghaiOSE...