Word: honolulu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prince Nobuhito Takamatsu, 23, son of the late Emperor of Japan, Yoshihito, and brother of the present Emperor, Hirohito, arrived at Honolulu with dirty hands, dirty face, dirty clothes. He explained to the reception committee that he had been directing the coaling of the cruiser Yaktimo; asked that no photographs be taken. Then said he: "Honolulu may be called a place where the hands of peace, stretched by Japan and the U. S., grasp each other...
This bottled clue, picked up last week on Westport Beach, Aberdeen, Wash., was thought to determine the fate of the plane Miss Doran, carrying Mildred Doran, Michigan schoolmistress and two men, which disappeared last year during a flight from Oakland, Calif., to Honolulu (TIME...
...coming and not the going of Capt. Cook that the U. S. territory of Hawaii prepared to celebrate last week. Grass huts were built on Waikiki beach, Honolulu, to show how the natives lived 150 years ago when white man first gazed upon them.* The peaceful tasks of weaving lauhala mats, pounding poi, fashioning tapa cloth were conspicuous in the pageant...
...Hawaii would not omit Riley H. Allen, editor of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin; Frank Atherton, banker, sugar and shipping man; Alexander Budge, director in pineapple, sugar, shipping and hotel firms...
Last week, the U. S. aircraft carrier Lexington lifted anchor at San Pedro, Calif., bound for Honolulu. It broke the 24-hr, record the first day out, steaming 700 miles. It broke it again on the second day with 742 miles. On the third day it raced 770 miles to port. The Lexington with Capt. A. W. Marshall in command, had made the fastest sea passage ever logged between the U. S. and Hawaii, covering 2,228 nautical miles in 72 hours, 34 minutes; also the world's record for 24-hr, runs...