“[T]he Japanese will soon number more than half the population of the Islands, yet they are not being assimilated—at least, not rapidly. They speak their own tongue, have their own newspapers, retain many of their customs. They apparently have an inferiority complex, for their newspapers shout: “We are your equals… We are as good as you or … [Read more...] about
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“The Arab oil embargo of 1973-74 gave Hawaii a frightening lesson in the vulnerability of its energy lifelines: the islands rely almost entirely on outside oil for fuel. Last year they used more than 45 million bbl., or $1.5 billion worth, nearly two-thirds of it from foreign sources.” -From “Cooking with Bagasse” by Sara Medina, Time Magazine, … [Read more...] about
“Plantation Worker Luis Espina, who had not been off Lanai Island in 17 years, gasped when he saw row on row of the cannery’s machines core and peel 100 fresh pineapples a minute. Said he: ‘I never knew such things existed.’” -From “Can Such Things Be?” Time Magazine, Apr. 24, 1950 … [Read more...] about
“For the squads of Philippine lawyers preparing cases on three continents, stripping away the financial camouflage that disguises the [Ferdinand] Marcos empire is just one part of what international law scholars agree will be an extraordinarily complicated legal battle… The Central Bank of the Philippines has sued to recover the crates of gold and $1.5 million in freshly minted … [Read more...] about
“‘The world is moving toward a new era—the Pacific era,’ says Hawaii’s Governor John A. Burns, and his state shows a lively new determination to make its mid-Pacific location the center of the region’s rising tide of intellectual and scientific achievement.” -From “New Tides in the Pacific,” Time Magazine, Feb. 26, 1965 … [Read more...] about