Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover last week studied a system of sliding sugar tariffs brought to him by Sugarman Rudolph Spreckels of California. He jiggled it around experimentally to see if it would protect both consumer and producer, then laid it aside to proclaim an increase in the tariff on linseed oil from 3 3/10 cents per lb. to 3 7/10 cents...
...headquarters of the sugar and pineapple industries ($100,000,000 per year); the bathing and surfboarding at Waikiki, the steamships to the mainland, the tourists, the hub of social life...
...Molokai is the leper colony (450), carefully isolated. Maui, like all the islands, is rich with pineapples and sugar...
...citizens. Japan once planned to annex Hawaii by intensive colonization, but U. S. immigration laws checked that. In Hawaii, the Japanese are called "the Jews of the Pacific" because of their ability, eagerness, tenacity at acquiring the characteristics and culture of another people. Most of the work on the sugar and pineapple plantations is performed by Filipinos (60,000 on the island) and Chinese...
...Zzyz" as a nom de telephone, secured last place in the book. But his shrewdness brought publicity and publicity brought imitation. The last name in new telephone books about to be issued is not Lewis Browne Zzyz but R. Cantarrana Zzyzz. The usurper is Ramon Cantarrana, young Cuban, onetime sugar broker, last week honeymooning in Cuba...