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Long before the attack was over, CINCPAC Admiral Sharp was routed out of bed (about 4 a.m., Hawaii time) by a duty officer. He hurried to the windowless war room on the third deck of his hilltop headquarters overlooking the white sands of the Oahu coast. He slipped into his green leather chair at the center of a U-shaped table, opposite a wall on which illuminated status reports could be flashed, and picked up a dialless gold telephone at his left. On the Stateside end of the circuit was Robert McNamara. Sharp seldom left that room during the next...
Such inequalities are more than mere statistical curiosities. In Hawaii, the left-wing International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's 'Union has been able to elect, and then to influence, legislators outside the heavily populated island of Oahu. The union therefore can ram almost any labor legislation through the legislature at the expense of Honolulu's underrepresented businessmen. Dominant farm legislators in Delaware have maintained a law that requires a farmers' market to be situated on a main street of Wilmington. Florida's Dade County (Miami) supplies 25% of the state's gasoline...
...horse, broke his leg, and settled down for life. Benjamin bought a hardware store, married a missionary's daughter, had four children. In 1888 the ambitious ex-sailor got a royal franchise from King Kalakaua to build a narrow-gauge railroad to haul sugar cane from inland Oahu down to the sea. Skeptics called it "Dillingham's Folly." But it was a huge success, became a key first step in the Dillingham family's development of the islands...
...Mass always follows class," sighed Hawaii Visitors Bureau Manager Charles Braden. And though mass has gone, lemming-like, down to the beach at Waikiki, class is slowly but in increasing numbers beginning to push on past Oahu to the other, lusher and less hokey islands. In 1955 there were only 815 hotel rooms available on outer or so-called Neighbor Islands (v. more than 8,000 in Waikiki alone); last year there were 1,776 with more abuilding...
...into politics after World War II service in the Army (he won a Bronze Star in the Saipan invasion) as a member of the Honolulu board of supervisors, has put in eight years (1949-57) as a member of the territorial senate, recently served as Republican county chairman on Oahu...