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...starting gun boomed. Thirty-four seagoing yachts jockeyed their way across the line and out of Los Angeles Harbor to the open sea. It was the start of the first postwar 2,225-mile California-to-Honolulu handicap race...
...reasonable that U.S. Steel Corp.'s President Benjamin F. Fairless, on vacation in Honolulu, said: "That's exactly what we intend to do." Big Steel, the bellwether of the industry, could well afford to wait. Its first-quarter profits totaled $39,234,000, nearly half as much as in all of record-high 1946, and the second quarter was expected to be just about as high. Smaller producers, not nearly so well fixed, boosted prices here & there, but most of them too held the line...
...passengers on the initial flight, publicity-wise Pan Am had included 15 bigwig publishers and editors. They had taken tea with Prime Minister Clement Attlee, dined with China's Generalissimo, supped with General Douglas MacArthur. With lesser luminaries, they wined & dined in Istanbul, Calcutta, Manila and Honolulu...
Oversight. In Honolulu, Light Heavyweight Richard Cunningham jauntily climbed through the ropes into the ring, briskly peeled off his robe, promptly climbed out again, presently reappeared, all set, wearing the trunks he had forgotten the first time...
...Young Billy and his mother, who worked in different places while Billy sandwiched in his hit-or-miss schooling, traveled back & forth between San Francisco and Hawaii. When he was 14, his mother decided that it was time Billy got a formal education, and enrolled him in the Honolulu military academy. He had been there only six weeks when he learned that his mother was going to San Francisco. He ran away from school and joined her. That ended his formal education. So, at 15, he got an office boy's job with San Francisco's Wells Fargo...