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Hawaii: Prologue Of History
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Until statehood, Hawaii was ruled economically by a consortium of corporations
known as the "Big Five": C. Brewer and Co., sugar, ranching, and chemicals,
founded in 1826; Theo. H. Davies & Co., sugar, investments, insurance, and
transportation, founded in 1845; Amfac Inc. (originally H. Hackfield ....
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..... After 1960 too much money was at stake for Mainland-based
corporations to ignore. Eventually the grip of the Big Five was loosened, but
they are still enormously powerful and richer than ever, though these days they
don't control everything. Now their power is land. With only five other major
landholders, the Big Five control 65 percent of all the privately held land in
Hawaii.
Why was the 1946 Strike so important?
Before 1946, Hawaii's economy, politics and social structures were completely.... |
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