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...liner Mat-sonia. As the ship passed, on her last voyage to the mainland, a few sentimental spectators wept. One of Hawaii's most popular links with the mainland, she was headed for San Francisco and the auction block. In her place this week was a younger (1932) Matson ship, the 18,163-ton Lurline, making her first commercial postwar trip to the Islands...
...refurbish the Lurline, Matson Navigation Co. had laid out close to $19,500,000, more than twice the ship's original cost. The heavy expense forced Matson to shelve plans for rebuilding her two sister ships, the Mariposa and the Monterey. Even the Lurline was a gamble as competition from the airlines (Pan American and United Air Lines) has cut deeply into Matson's business...
Married. Kate ("Klondike Kate") Rockwell Matson, 68, onetime "Belle of the Yukon," famed dance-hall favorite of gold-rush days; and William L. Van Duren, an accountant and friend of 19 years' standing; she for the third time, he for the second; in Vancouver, Wash...
...five members of the team who are making the circuit include Captain Sam Savage '46, Bill Rickenbacker '49, Jack Denton '59, Bob Matson '50, and Ozzle Keiver '48. Coach Barclay will not be able to make the trip with this group. Varsity Golf Schedule March 31 North Carolina at Chapel Hill April 1 V.P.I. at Blacksburg, Va. 2 Virginia at Charlottesville 9 Boston College 16 Boston University at B.U. 23 Boston Coll. at Commonw'lth 26 Boston University 28 Brown May 1 M.I.T. 5 Amherst 7-8 Eastern Intercollegiates: Princeton, Columbia, and Yale 15 Eastern Intercollegiate Playoff...
Even before the war, the Big Five no longer dominated the merchandising field. Piggly Wiggly, Sears, Roebuck and others had moved in. Now Pan American and United Air Lines finished cracking the transport monopoly once enjoyed by the Big Five's Matson steamship line. More visitors were arriving in Hawaii by air than by sea. But the Big Five still supplies most of the direction and driving power for the islands' economy...