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Only one ship from the U.S. had docked in Honolulu in six weeks. Foodstuffs were dangerously, low (90% are imported); little businesses were closing down, bigger businesses were laying off employes. The loss of $5,000,000 in wages by about 28,000 sugar workers was a crippling blow...
...Grub Stake. In Honolulu, Joseph Rodriguez told police that his lunch pail had been stolen, said he used it as a bank, had just deposited 3 sandwiches...
...Honolulu, the Army put up for sale 72,000 pounds of bologna, 109 pairs of spurs, 28 saddles, 115,000 antichap lipsticks, 1,000 suits of ladies' long underwear treated to withstand mustard...
With true sportsmanship, the Navy helped the Army in its attack on the record. Ready for the take-off in Hawaii, the Boeing Superfortress Pacusan Dreamboat, 27,000 lbs. overweight, was expected to need every mile of runway it could get. The Navy connected its John Rodgers airfield outside Honolulu with the Army's Hickam Field, gave the Dreamboat 13,500 feet. It took about half that. Actually, the Army had little hope of bettering the Turtle's mark, trumpeted that its $3,000,000 flight over the Pole to Cairo would test performance in polar regions...
Rooftree. In Honolulu, the Star-Bulletin ran a want ad: "Furnished roof for rent...