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...made the seagoing islanders among the most airminded people in the world is Stanley C. Kennedy, 58, the island-born, Stanford-educated president of the line. When he came home from World War I service as a Navy flyer, Stan Kennedy tried to get his father's Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co., for years the only inter-island freight and passenger carrier, to start an airline. Instead of 15 hours from Honolulu to Hilo, he argued, it would take only a few hours. Old James Kennedy, a hypercautious Scotsman, said nothing doing...
...boom has a foundation. Through the islands, hemp and copra production is steeply up; canefields converted to rice and cotton during the war have been turned back to-more profitable sugar; refineries are going full blast; inter-island shipments are heavier than prewar...
...Argentina, are free to make private contracts with foreign customers (although the U.S. Government has to grant export licenses), that if Argentina had the money, it could buy arms wherever it could find them. The Army itself could do nothing for him until Congress passes the long pigeonholed Inter-American Military Cooperation bill to authorize the U.S. to sell weapons to Latin America at bargain prices...
Dissatisfied with their current athletic fare, many Freshmen have been watching the well-nourished inter-House sports program with envy. Yet the Houses, for all their advantages, have suffered from what in Freshman eyes must seem appalling apathy. Much of this lack of interest can be traced back to the Yard, from where all House residents come. Without a going sports setup to catch their interest, first-year men have formed non-athletic habits which they have carried like a plague to the Houses. But if a sound and attractive program can introduce Freshmen to the joys of softball, basketball...
...usher in the golden age, just as they can hardly devise a foolproof scheme without some trial and error. But whatever system is finally decided upon, a fully-realized program of Yard sports will give new life to Freshman activities in general, as well as to inter-House athletics...