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Selling is a 1949 magazine article about: Hawaii, Title: Because it Rains on HawaiiAuthor: Frederick Simpich Jr. This article is about Hawaii, the not-yet-49th state of the USA. Lots of information on the people, agri-business, scenery etc. From the 1st page: “THE NATION starts talking when any Territory asks to join the Union as a new State. A candidate for statehood gets the same scrutiny as a would-be son-in-law might get from a girl's family. That's how mainland Americans are looking now at Hawaii, talked of in Congress as our 49th State. If admitted, it would be the 1st member of the Union not a part of continental United States. Hawaii, lying out in the warm Pacific some 2,400mis southwest of California, is an island group long ruled by a native royal family. Liliuokalani was the last queen. After a "revolution" the islands, by treaty, were annexed to the United States in 1898. Though the 7 seas are laced by colorful archipelagoes, Americans feel there is no other group of islands quite like Hawaii. Mark Twain called them "the loveliest fleet of islands that lie anchored in any ocean" (map, page 575). The Hawaiian group is unique. It has no natural resources-but plenty of rain! This rain makes Hawaiian sugar so luxuriant that it can serve the sweet tooth of some 20,000,000 Americans. Rain, transformed into Hawaiian pineapple, supplies most of the United States. And flowers and scenery, nourished by tropic rains, lure an enthusiastic tourist trade (page 596). In this water-minded fairyland cattle swim part way to market, herded by seagoing cowboys. I know 1 plantation that tunneled around a volcano to move water 30 mis. Another pumps enough underground water to supply a big city. To get the rain where it counts most, planters construct sprinkler systems, giant versions of the 1 in the city dweller's front yard, so big that 1 nozzle sends a spray over 3 acres. Hawaii's dependence on water is complete. Virtually everything it eats and uses comes by water. Islanders are never more conscious of the Pacific reaches around them than during long-shore strikes. As this is written, labor troubles in both Hawaiian and mainland ports have cut off overseas supplies and markets for more than 7 of the twelve months past. Such times highlight Hawaii's dependence on water-borne commerce. Normally her supply lines run on ferryboat schedules. There are Tuesday freighters from San Francisco, and on Thursdays the Los Angeles ships come in. Every ten days brings a vessel from the east coast and Gulf ports and another fortnightly from the Pacific Northwest, supplemented by freighters handling lumber from the same region. These regular sailings operated by the Matson and Isthmian Lines are fattened by frequent calls of trans-Pacific steamers seeking bunkers and stores or discharging and loading way freight. Prewar demands of the Orient-born population brought many bizarre house flags into Honolulu Harbor. Since V-J Day, with the great NYK fleet of the Japanese sunk and Dutch, Swedish, and British fleets still rebuilding, foreign flags are scarce. Rebirth of Hawaiian commerce abroad is also curbed by dollar restrictions, Australian austerity, civil war in China, and General MacArthur's limitations on foreign trade with Japan…” 7” x 10”, 19 double-sided pages, nine B&W & 32 color images plus map. Good condition. These are pages from an actual 1949 magazine. No reprints or copies. 49K1 Please note the flat-rate shipping for my magazine articles. Please see my other auctions and store items for more old articles, advertising pages and non-fiction books. Click Here To Visit My eBay Store: busybeas books and adsHundreds of items!Anything I find that looks interesting! Please see my other auctions for more goodies, books and magazines. I’ll combine wins to save on postage. No postage charge for the ads or articles if you buy a book that I can mail the ads/articles inside. Thanks For Looking! Matthew 7: 7-8 Powered by eBay Turbo Lister
