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...mammoth Alcan project is a prime example of the Morrison method. When the preliminary survey work was done in February 1951, MK's No. 2 man, Jack Bonny, called a big, hearty Swede named Ole Strandberg who was vacationing in Honolulu. "Come on back," said Bonny. "We have a job for you-some dams and tunnels-the kind of stuff you like." Some "dams and tunnels," recalls Strandberg, turned out to be "a ten-mile tunnel, a 50-mile transmission line, the biggest underground powerhouse ever built...
...conjures to the mind a group of bespecacled ogres plotting the destruction of his academic career. In reality, however, ETS in its seven years of existence has raised the standards of testing, to such a height that close to every imaginable organization, from the United States Government, to the Honolulu Board of Education, has requested its services...
...Last week, by the time the Caronia left Japan for Honolulu and home, she had left behind some $300,000 in good convertible currency. "They were so nice, so charming," cooed a Japanese official over the departed tourists, "and so very, very rich...
Vincent S. Aoki of Honolulu; Geoffrey T. Chalmers of Gambier, Ohio; Roger L. Clifton of Longmeadow, Mass.; Henry C. Dyer of St. Louis, Mo.; Harry K. Eldridge of Albany, N. Y.; Sigo Falk of Pittsburgh, Pa.; John W. Fowler of Naugatuck, Conn.; Robert H. Jaffe of Jamaica, L. I.; John R. Lind, of Wilmette, Ill.; Peter W. Macky of Paget, Bermuda; Arnold Marglin of Hollywood, Cal.; Arthur W. Martin of Seattle, Wash.; Lester R. Moulton, Marblehead, Mass.; Stewart Ogden, Louisville, Ky.; Harold P. Santmire of Buffalo, N. Y.; Stephen L. Singer of New Rochelle, N. Y.; Glenn E. Sisler...
...stream is no good in summer; it flows too far to the north. East of Honolulu, it is present but not dependable, and on east-west flights it is a hindrance rather than a help. When headed west, Pan Am still schedules the Wake Island stop...