Word: theo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Five, which have gone through a number of changes in ownership, now are: Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd. (founded by two missionaries' sons); C. Brewer & Co., Ltd. (founded by a New England trader, James Hunnewell); Theo. H. Davies & Co., Ltd. (founded by Theophilus Davies, of England); American Factors, Ltd. (founded by Captain Henry Hackfeld of Germany); and Castle & Cooke, Ltd. (founded by missionaries...
...called big five are five companies acting as agents for the Hawaiian sugar plantations in the transportation and marketing of sugar, procurement of supplies and machinery and other matters. They are American Factors, C. Brower & Co., Alexander & Baldwin, Castle & Cooke, and Theo, H. Davis...
...Alexander & Baldwin Ltd.; C. Brewer & Co.; Castle & Cooke Ltd.; Theo. H. Davies & Co., Ltd.; American Factors Ltd. They are crop marketers, shippers, agents for the 'planters...
Paradise Preserved. Even the Japanese, apparently, had fallen under the spell of "the land where the angels fly low." Dutch troops came upon two happy veterans of Bali's flourishing prewar artists' colony: Belgian Adrien Jean Le Mayeur, 66, and Swiss Theo Meier, 38. They told no harrowing stories of hunger sieges, frozen feet or welted backs. Painter Le Mayeur had lived through the war in a tile-floored seaside villa overhung with purplish-pink bougainvillea blossoms. His studio was a garden perfumed by the powerful scent of the frangipani tree. His model was his youthful wife, Polok...
Cheerful, dark-eyed Theo Meier had rescued his U.S.-made paints when the Japs swarmed in. He retreated with his two Balinese wives to a mountaintop chalet overlooking an amphitheater of verdant, terraced rice fields. When he needed money he sold a friend's watch. Neighbors brought him rice and vegetables, and local rajahs sent him gifts of beef and pork. Unmolested by the Japs, Meier painted 150 canvases. On the side he grew tobacco, which one of his wives rolled into miniature cigars. He also made rice wine and a fiery plum cordial he called "swisky-the drink...