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Petersburg-Havana, Havana-Key West, the Honolulu, and Detroit-Mackinac races; Lulu, winner of the Prince of Wales Cup in 1937; Nyala, winner of the Astor and King's Cups in 1939; Harold Vanderbilt's 12-meter Vim, winner of the same cups the next year; Goose, the outstanding international 6-meter for ten years; the New York Yacht Club's 325 and some 700 other yachts...
Died. Joseph Rider Farrington. 56, since 1942 Hawaii's delegate to Congress and chief proponent of Hawaiian statehood, president and publisher of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin; of a heart attack; in Washington...
TIME began printing its Pacific edition, now one of the four international editions (the others: Atlantic, Latin American and Canadian) in Honolulu during the war. This edition was distributed in Hawaii, the Pacific Ocean area and the Far East. After the war TIME also started printing in Tokyo. Early this year, transportation and supply facilities had improved to the extent that it was logistically and economically feasible to consolidate all our Pacific printing in the one plant in Tokyo. Plans were made to close down the Honolulu printing operation...
...completed to do this. From now on, more than 12,000 copies from the early press run at our Los Angeles printing plant will be marked "Air Speeded Edition." These weekly shipments will be loaded aboard planes in Los Angeles and 9½ hours later will arrive in Honolulu ready for distribution...
...watchdog TV. At an annual saving of $12,000 in guard salaries, Watertown Arsenal in Massachusetts posts TV cameras for 24-hour watch of 300 yards of fence. Television eyes help check the speed of sugar cane moving along a conveyor belt at the Ewa Plantation near Honolulu, tip off workmen when the cane jams up. At Chicago's Argonne National Laboratory, scientists manipulate radioactive material with intricate "slave hands" by means of three-dimensional camera that gives the necessary depth perception for delicate handling. The military has drafted television to get safe closeups of automatic shell loading, seek...