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ROBERT W. CAPPS of Honolulu, a retired Hawaiian Pineapple Co. official, recently wrote to Advertising Director John McLatchie: "I am reclining on our lanai, looking out toward the surf . . . and wondering just who is John McLatchie? Is this another synthetic like Betty Crocker, or is he really a person...
...boss of Hawaii's biggest pineapple business, Henry A. White was surprised to learn that most of the Hawaiian Pineapple Co.'s 1,000 plantation workers on Lanai Island had never seen the company's cannery on Oahu, some 50 miles away. Checking up, White also learned that most of the cannery's 1,300 full-time workers had never seen the plantation...
Last week, White sent both groups touring, at a cost of more than $50,000 to the company. He rented a fleet of Hawaiian Airlines' DC-35 and started shuttling the cannery workers to Lanai, the plantation workers to Oahu. Both had a day's inspection trip, plus banquets, entertainment and pay. Plantation Worker Luis Espina, who had not been off Lanai Island in 17 years, gasped when he saw row on row of the cannery's machines core and peel 100 fresh pineapples a minute. Said he: "I never knew such things existed...
...knot Lurline, also a troopship during the war, had been stripped and rebuilt from the hull up. Manhattan's Raymond Loewy Associates had designed lanai (porch) suites with private sundecks and air-conditioned cabins that were combination living and bedrooms. First-class fare: $150, up to $850 for the lanai suites...
...territorial history the "Paradise of the Pacific" was prepared to give Franklin Roosevelt a royal welcome. Its citizens were planning to put him up at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, in the suite occupied three years ago by Siam's good King Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai Barni. There from his lanai (veranda) he could look out at the surfboarders and swimmers of Waikiki Beach. A hundred volunteer guides were eager to show him the huge fortifications on Diamond Head, the great naval base in land-locked Pearl Harbor (which he as Assistant Secretary of the Navy helped develop), a review...