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Early in the war, plump, bustling Ruddy Tongg formed a syndicate of small businessmen, called a hid (rhymes with Louie), and bought up properties of Caucasians fleeing to the mainland. At war's end, Ruddy Tongg had $1,000,000 worth of choice assets, including a bottling works, lucrative Waikiki Tavern, an insurance company, a 36,000-acre ranch and other real estate...
...Tongg, a crack skeet-shooter, had taken only a few potshots at established island businesses. But in 1946, he aimed deliberately at thriving, island-hopping Hawaiian Airlines (TIME, June 21). With four DC-35 he started unscheduled Trans-Pacific Airlines, which flew regularly enough to haul 10,000 inter-island passengers a month during the first year. By 1947, Ruddy managed to gross $103,000 and net $35,000 in one month. That was too much for Hawaiian Air. It got an injunction to keep Ruddy from flying on schedules; Ruddy's business dropped...
...months Tongg's airline merely went through the motions, like a weary hula dancer. In 1948, it lost $148,427. Then, early this year, CAB gave Ruddy's Trans-Pacific Airlines a five-year certificate. This week, as T.P.A. advertised its first scheduled inter-island flights, to start next week, Tongg invited Hawaiians to "fly the Aloha...
Chicken Feed. Ruddy Tongg, 44, has been a scrapper all his life. The son of a plantation laborer, Ruddy earned his way through the University of Hawaii by working as a cannery yardboy and cook, and tending chickens on the university poultry farm...
...college in 1925, he started a bilingual Chinese-English weekly in Honolulu that eventually grew into Tongg Publishing Co.*It earned him the venture capital that made him a big operator in the huts. His brother Richard Choy Tongg is his inseparable companion in all his promotions...