Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High Winds. It is the tourist Hawaii that Hawaiians have done the best job of selling. The center of this tourist world is the white sand crescent of Waikiki beach, rimmed by the big hotels. Most tourists spend their time lolling in the sun-with perhaps a duty Circuit of Honolulu's island of Oahu. They visit the mid-island pass called the Pali and gaze down with ohs and ahs from its high cliff. There King Kamehameha I in 1795 won an important victory in his campaign to unite the islands by beating the defending Oahuans and forcing...
...years Dr. Orr had been digging up skeletons of the Canalinos, the small, fish-eating Indians who lived on the island when the Spanish arrived. One day, while tramping the island, he stumbled on a skull half-buried in the sand. It did not take an anthropologist to tell that this skull was peculiar: it was painted or dyed a brilliant Chinese...
...burrowed deep in the sand and found a whole cemetery of strange red-skulled skeletons, all in a sitting position, with knees drawn up under their chins. One group was arranged sociably around a table-like stone. By now, 75 skeletons have been dug up. Only the skulls are colored red; the rest of the bones are normal skeletons of strong, tall people (three were giants 7½ ft. tall). In the earholes of a good proportion of the skulls are peculiar bony obstructions that must have caused deafness...
Bennett's voice, however, is distinctly his own; it has a diffused, No.-OO-sand-paper sound, a quality which he feels has endeared him to his fans. Says he: "At first, I tried to eliminate things like that from my voice. But I've decided now to let it all alone. I've stopped eliminating altogether...
...story skyscraper made quite a crown for the empire-building son of a Lithuanian suspenders-maker. Crown, who was born in Chicago, started out 32 years ago in the sand and gravel business. His Material Service Corp. now grosses $45 million a year. Most Chicago businessmen had never heard of Crown until three years ago, when he and three associates bought working control (25%) of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R.R. (TIME, Nov. 28, 1949). He has also supplied much of the money behind Hotelman Conrad Hilton's buying ventures, is now the biggest stockholder (8.7%) after Hilton...