Tsunamis in Hawaiian Islands Record Seventy-Eight Years of Destruction
A Commerce Department study traces 85 tsunamis across the Hawaiian Islands over 156 years, noting 383 deaths and 57 million dollars in damage. The 1946 and 1960 waves caused major losses at Hilo and across Maui, Hawaii, Kauai, and Oahu, with historic events back to 1819 and possible early waves.
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Washington
Hawaiiian Islands
New Commerce Department
Hawaii
Hilo
Hawaiian Islands
Environmental Science Services Administration
George Pararas- Caravannis
The
Honolulu of
Fice
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Pacific
Aleutian Islands
Pararas - Caravannis
South Puna
Kau
Puna
Chile
Kauai
Oahu
Maui
USDA Yearbook Answers Variety of Food Questions
Washington UPI reports the USDA yearbook Food For Us All answers questions on steak shrimp coffee tuna meat costs and take home pay. The 400 page volume includes 46 articles on food economics marketing dieting and money stretching ideas for shoppers. Congress gets 232 250 copies free. others may buy for 3 50.
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Washington
UPI
Chateau Briand
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
Congress
Government Printing Office
Seek Greater Authority Pacific Islands Challenge West
Fourteen Pacific dependencies met in Noumea at a South Pacific Conference to review the South Pacific Commission and seek shifts in funding and powers from colonial rulers. They adopted a plan to have an islander candidate, Afioga Afoafouvale Misimoa, succeed the retiring Sir Gawain Bell as secretary general. The assembly included chiefs and legislators from Western Samoa Fiji Gilbert and Ellice Islands Nauru and other territories.
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New _ Caledonia
Pacific
Americas
Asia
United States Army
South Pacific Commission
Gawain Bell
Western Samoa
Afioga Afoafouvale Misimoa
Robert Louis Stevenson
Samoa
Harry Moors
Misimoa
Mr. Moors
United States
Britain
France
Australia
New Zealand
Nauru
South
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Dartmouth College
Hanover
J.W. Barber Jr
Oli
Usda Yearbook
CWA Studio
Joel C. Towart
of Photography
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DIAL
Bennington
Robert Trumbull
Kamisese Mars
Fiji
Sir Kamisese
Prince Tuipelehake
Tonga
Reuben Oatioa
Tarawa
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Oatioa
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Rome
South Pacific
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