Word: interisland
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...high federation officials must put up with far more red tape than U.S. tourists in traveling from island to island. The hordes of jobless in Jamaica and smaller islands cannot go to prosperous Trinidad to work. At the end of a five-year preparation period, the representatives will establish interisland-travel freedom...
Until 1949, Hawaiian Airlines was Hawaii's only scheduled interisland airline, and it had made money for six years without a Government subsidy. Starting in 1929 with two eight-passenger Sikorsky Amphibians, it had added a fleet of 13 dependable, twin-engined DC-35, carried 304,000 passengers annually (without a fatality). H.A.L. passengers had some gripes; they wanted to smoke aloft, complained of too few ticket offices, and charged that H.A.L. discriminated against Asians. In 1949 CAB decided that H.A.L...
...Interisland shipping has been slowly reconstructed, although beef from southernmost Mindanao is still being flown to Manila because of the lack of refrigerator ships. A thousand surplus tractors have helped boost carabao-geared farm production; the Filipinos are now nearly self-sufficient in food. There is no threat of cholera, which daily kills scores in Bangkok ; no plague, which continually ravishes part of China. Three million children, compared to a prewar two million, are back in school. Driving through Mindanao, I was amazed at the number of schools. Communal problems there are small. Said one Mohammedan datu (chieftain...