Word: hawaiian
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Maui Fair, largest annual exposition in the Hawaiian Islands; at Maui Island, Hawaii...
...been so many years since ukuleles and hula dancing were introduced to the U. S. that any attempt to revive the Hawaiian mood which burgeoned in 1913 somehow becomes tawdry, tasteless, stagey. The booming Viennese melodies and waltzes that Rudolf Friml has provided for Luana may seem less incongruous, more tuneful when heard removed from the setting of papier-mache palm trees, skirts of all grasses and emaciated, brown-powdered chorus boys. Robert Chisholm (Golden Dawn, Sweet Adeline}, as a drunken beachcomber, does some powerful chanting with "Son of the Sun." Ruth Altman, the latest find of Producer Hammerstein...
...Congress delegates, 45 were from the Hawaiian Islands (where Orientals outnumber Occidentals 4 to i), 38 from Japan, eleven from the U. S., four from China, three from Korea, two from Canada, two from India, one from Siam, one from Java...
...claimed that a city of 100,000 could subsist on these foreign meat purchases, which exceeded 6,500,000 Ib. per year. Other provender which the Army & Navy have been buying in part abroad included beans, cereals, dairy products. The Cal- ifornia Cattlemen's Association pointed out that Hawaiian beef was being dumped on the Pacific coast, adding to the surplus and depressing prices, because the Army & Navy insisted upon importing their meat for troops in Hawaii from British possessions in the South Pacific twice as far from Hawaii...
...average cost of foreign beef delivered in the Hawaiian Islands is 2¢ to 4¢ per Ib. cheaper than the U. S. product delivered in the U. S. Any change in the law to require the American product would, of course, require a considerable increase in the appropriation for the sub- sistence of the Army...