Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week were engaged in limited violence. Near Milan, a Red "punitive expedition" went fascist-hunting, ran into a farmer with a gun who killed two of the Communists; at Savona, a shoeshine man tossed a hand grenade into a crowd of churchgoers, killed an old woman; on Pantelleria Island, when a Communist-led crowd stormed the tax collector's office, police killed three men in the melee. Police found numerous Communist arms caches...
Added to the hospitality of the Rugby Week Committee, headed by Stanley Gascoigne and Stuart Outerbridge, was that of the British Army, for the Harvard team was quartered at the Royal Army's Prospect Officers Mess while on the island. Most of the British personnel, including the famous Gloucestershire Regiment, were down at British Honduras where they were putting down a native insurrection in true Kipling style. The remaining Britishers, however, seemed quite delighted to allow the Harvard team to take over their mess facilities for breakfasts, and to have free rein around the camp. They also provided a cheering...
...Paul Lamonica, a 27-year-old butcher of Ozone Park, N.Y., sued the Long Island Rail Road for $2,000, charging that he had been made permanently "nervous" by 83-hours of "false imprisonment" in a Long Island train on the night of New York's record 25.8-inch snowfall...
Acre for acre, the red lava soil of Hawaii is the richest sugar land in the world. Two of Hawaii's biggest sugar plantations, on the island of Maui, are Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., Ltd. and Maui Agricultural Co., Ltd. Last week, 70-year-old Frank Fowler Baldwin, ruling patriarch of Hawaii's potent Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd., combined the two companies in a $25 million merger. As a result, the new company, Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., Ltd., with 25,454 acres of cane land and a yearly output of 135,000 tons of sugar, becomes the largest plantation...
Today the Alexander & Baldwin interests extend into shipping, hotels, communications, oil, banking, one-tenth of all Hawaiian pineapple, one-eighth of the island sugar. Since Henry Baldwin's death in 1911, the empire has been ruled by stocky Frank Baldwin (the Alexanders are no longer active in the management). Frank is training his own son, Asa, 40, to carry on. Last week, Asa moved into the new company as his father's second in command...