Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over Düsseldorf last week, a dark, beetle-browed young man leaned from the window of a low-flying Cessna and shoveled out handbills by the thousand. "Everything moves. Nothing stands still," they proclaimed. "Stop building cathedrals and pyramids which crumble like lumps of sugar! Stop resisting changeability! Be free! Live!" In the streets below, one man picked up a copy, read it, then shook his fist at the plane. Artist Jean Tinguely, 33, was delighted. "Some will say, 'very good.' Others will object. The overall result will be just what I wanted: total confusion...
...missionary work was declared officially completed by 1863, but many of the missionary families stayed on, opened the second great epoch of Hawaii's history, founded families of growing influence. Trade prospered as huge sugar fields spread across the flatlands and mountainsides; captains of trade were the so-called "Big Five"-massive trading, shipping and factoring companies. The economy boomed, while more and more the prosperous agriculturists imported fresh shiploads of Japanese and Chinese labor. The influx, guided by the paternalistic Big Five, began subtly to change the island character as intermarriages produced new breeds of natives, new workers...
...Queen Liliuokalani, the buxom, strong-willed sister of Kalakaua, and, like her brother, a cultivated personage (poet, musician, composer of the famed Aloha Oe). Tough-minded Liliuokalani tried to overthrow the constitution as Hawaii plummeted into the depression that followed President McKinley's punishing tariff law on sugar. Around the rugged Queen grew secret societies such as the Annexation Club, and finally, in 1893, a Committee of Safety took possession of the government office building, formed a republic, applied to the U.S. for annexation. Five years later, to the sound of a 21-gun salute from shore batteries...
Solvency & Syllables. With stability finally assured, Hawaii's vigorous culture sank new roots. In the New Deal days came the rise of unionism and of Red-lining Harry Bridges, who won control of Hawaii's longshoremen, pineapple and sugar workers. Though Hawaiian labor made needed gains, Bridges' ironhanded control of the island economy posed a new threat; it lasts, somewhat diluted, even today, in an uneasy peace between the unions and industry...
...coffee price supports as a nightmare just as dreadful as grain supports in the U.S. Lately, the U.S. has come to realize that quotas might stabilize the market, and prices as well, at no cost to the U.S. Treasury. In practice, the arrangement would work like the long-successful sugar quota system, which guarantees producing nations specific shares of U.S. sugar imports each year. By assigning each coffee country a sure market for a set amount of coffee, the quotas should discourage the present wild overproduction and cutthroat competition among the surplus-ridden growers...