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Comb Land. The rest of the voyage to Callao was easy. As Dr. Davis neared the Peruvian coast, he recalled an old tale of the islands. A Polynesian expedition under Chief Maui Marumamao, says the legend, sailed east from Easter Island and came to "a land with ridges like a comb." The Peruvian coast is like that, with steep, barren ridges running down to the sea. There the Polynesians built a temple, but they did not stay long because they did not find what they needed: fertile land near the sea. This description also matches Peru, for most...
...tourists discover the really spectacular scenery of the other islands: the painted-desert colors of Kauai's Waimea canyon; the vast, gaping Crater of the Sun atop Haleakala on Maui; the hissing craters and the black sand beach on Hawaii, "the big island." Overall, the islands have the raw material to lure the tourist dollar, but Hawaii's capitalists-old & new-will have to build more hotels before they can handle enough tourists to close the gap between imports and exports...
...into troop service, so civilians had to use Hawaiian Airlines to get from island to island. Hawaiian also flew food from outlying ranches into Honolulu, and when Hilo's main laundry closed down (TIME, May 12, 1947), provided two-day service from a laundry on the island of Maui...
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...
...their costs have long been among the world's highest, too. They were increased by the organizing inroads of the C.I.O.'s Harry Bridges. Average pay for the industry is $8.10 a day. In a boom year like 1947, when Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar netted $2,200,000, Maui Agricultural $800,000, that was not an insuperable handicap. But recently world sugar has shown signs of returning to its "normal" condition of overproduction. The Hawaiian price has fallen from its wartime high of $126.40 per ton to $108, seems likely to tumble more. With this prospect, Hawaii...