US On the Dole
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October 1st, 1992: Dole Packaged Foods Company begins phasing out its Lanai Plantation operations this month. The interaction of Dole and the sad history of the takeover of the Hawaiian Kingdom is left for another date. Let it suffice to note here that in 1922, James Dole purchased the Island of Lanai to grow pineapples. At this time, Dole was the largest processor of pineapple in the world, and on Lanai, planted 200,000 acres of the bromeliad. One can only imagine the surprise at the purchase which must have come on the part of many Hawaiians whose families had lived on the island for hundreds of years.
By 1992, Castle and Cooke had merged with Dole Co., and its president, David Murdock, decided that competing with low-cost Asian pineapple was unsound business. According to National Geographic magazine: “He took the 2,300 pineapple workers out of the fields and put them to work building two star-quality resorts-the Lodge at Koele, a veranda-wrapped plantationesque mirage rising amid the surprisingly cool, sweet-scented uplands of the interior; and the Manele Bay Hotel, a swirl of Asian art and sublime design facing out into the Pacific breezes that brush the south tip of the island.”
1851: The first Hawaiian stamps issued
1896: Yosemite becomes a National Park
1908: Henry Ford introduces the Model T car (costs $825)
1949: People’s Republic of China is proclaimed by Mao Tse-tung (National Day)
1958: NASA begins operations
1962: Brian Epstein signs a contract to manage the Beatles through 1977
1962: James Meredith becomes the first African American student at the University of Mississippi after 3,000 troops put down riots there against his attending. Today he is a conservative Republican.
1989: Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany
2001: US Supreme Court suspends former President Bill Clinton from practicing before the high court.
1207: Henry III, king of England (1216-72)
1893: Faith Baldwin, author/novelist
1904: Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
1914: Daniel Boorstin, author
1920: Walter Matthau, NYC, actor (Odd Couple, Bad News Bears) (88 years ago)
1921: James Whitmore, actor
1924: James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, 39th President (D)
1924: William Rehnquist, Supreme Court chief justice
1928: Laurence Harvey, actor
1930: Richard Harris, actor
1935: Julie Andrews, actress/singer
1949: Annie Leibovitz, photographer
1963: Mark McGwire, baseball player
