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...shops. It is also Japan's largest distributor of Chrysler Corp. autos and its sole distributor of International Harvester farm and construction equipment. As if all this were not enough, Osano last year bought three of the Sheraton Corp.'s Hawaiian hotels (the SurfRider, Moana, and Princess Kaiulani), thus becoming the largest individual Japanese investor in the U.S. He figures that, after the Japanese government this month lifts its postwar ban on foreign pleasure travel, the travel-loving Japanese will head "like a flood tide" for Hawaii, which, says Osano, "is far enough away for them to forget...
...government for its plans to set up a major canning operation in the south of France. Presumably, Libby will now be welcome. In Hawaii, Tokyo's Kokusai Kogyo Co. is awaiting only Japanese government approval before handing over $8.7 million to buy Sheraton's luxurious Princess Kaiulani Hotel on Waikiki. London's Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa. Ltd. is bidding $17.5 million to take control of St. Louis' American Zinc, Lead & Smelting...
Boston's bustling Sheraton Corp. took its first step off the North American continent last week. For $18 million, Matson Navigation Co. agreed to sell to Sheraton its four Honolulu hotels: the pink Royal Hawaiian, the porticoed Moana, the seven-year-old SurfRider, and the eleven-story Princess Kaiulani-all on famed Waikiki beach. Sheraton, second only to Hilton Hotels Corp., thus got 1,056 more rooms, boosted its total...
Superficially, Hoffa's answer seemed no more than the truth. That afternoon, at a meeting of the I.B.T. general executive board in Honolulu's Princess Kaiulani Hotel, Beck and the board had shelved Hoffa's pet project: a loan of $400,000 to the International Longshoremen's Association, which was expelled from the A.F.L. more than two years ago for flagrant corruption and racketeering. Beck also asked and got from the board virtually unlimited authority to clean out corruption in the I.B.T. itself...
...large iron dogs. Now Red Top is filled with the rhythmic music of carpenters' hammers; Red Top is being torn down to make room for a modern house, one not infested with reminders of stuffy and strenuous gaiety, hushed talk Coxey's, "Coin" Harvey and the Princess Kaiulani...