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Unlike past building booms, this one has jumped from bustling Oahu (the island on which Honolulu is located) to the rest of the archipelago. On Hawaii Island, largest in the group, a $2,000,000 shopping center will rise near Hilo and a 150-room Hilton hotel at Kailua-Kona. On Maui, work has begun on a seven-story, 100-room addition to the Wailuku Hotel. The building boom and the prospect of more tourists also aid other industries. Four new mattress factories have been opened, and Schlitz is about to build a 100,000-barrels-a-year brewery near...
...outer island attracting the most tourists is the big island of Hawaii, whose Kailua-Kona district has long been considered by its devotees among the Pacific's finest deep-sea fishing areas. The long-established Kona Inn. a barracks-like octopus of a place, captures much of the millionaire trade. But it is about to acquire a new rival. Promoter Laurance Rockefeller has leased a large tract around Kaunaoa Beach, hired Architects Skidmore. Owings & Merrill to design a $12 million, 150-room resort hotel intended to provide every luxury anybody is willing...
...Kailua, Oahu...
...beautiful rainbows, double omens of a happy visit, hung over Kailua one morning last week as the U. S. S. Houston, with President Roosevelt aboard, glided up to the west coast of the island of Hawaii. Governor Poindexter bustled out from shore to pay his respects. Then the President was free to go fishing for the great a'u. All day he fished and fished but at night returned a'uless to the Houston...