The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-03
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 Honolulu, Dec, S--tNEAl--.F1ve years after the debacle at Pearl Aareor, the visitor sees almost no elens of the fury and havoc that burst over the deep Inlet bay hard hy tabled Honolulu, at 7,sS A. Ma Dee ', ie4l,
 Where opee there was blazing eAtlleshipS, smoking docks and twisted wreckage of vast hangers, there are now greater military ins stallationS than ever
 The reservation has been more than doubled in area and % times expanded in extent, variety and cost of its installations. 1t and the Island of Oahu constitute the mlghtest single fortress in the world, the top strategic point in the huge Pacific, seOO air miles from San Francisco, $500 from Tokyo,
 More than a million fighting men passed through oahu in five years At one time the,e were 100000 sole diers alone stationed on the island.
 Honolulu has seen the war come and go, and great changes have been wrought in the capital city For months on end its streets were filled with hundreds of thousands of men In uniform. Now the Army, Navy and Marine personnel and civ- ilian war workers are almost negllg- ible. The Islands again are girdling for peacetime busineSs-tourist and otherwise. The palatial Royal Ha- maiian and other hotels, which are again in the hands of their owners are being refitted,
 Everybody in the islands-exeept the sugar workers-now is loaded with money The immense military expenditures for installations, con. strlction, equipment and personnel and the individual spending of hundreds of thousands of men flooded Honolulu with one of the greatest tides of cash revenue any city of 100000 has ever seen.
 Everybody who was in any kind of business couldn't help but make money, workers were well paid, with time-and-a-half for overtime. Only a handful have travelled since Pearl Harbor. There having been nowhere to spend their money. the people have five-year supply of 1t, that is all except the poor sugar workers. Travel agencies are now doing land office business
 Strike Hits Islands Hard
 The International Longshore- men and warehousemen'S Union CCTOl strike against Hawaiian sugar industry closed 8 plantations for 76 days. Losses in 96-degree raw sugar totalled l8S,000 tons.
 The 4S-day shipping strike also hit the islands hard. Three relief ships carrying food had to be sent into Honolulu during its course.
 The indirect losses of the sugar and shipping strikes cant be es- emated, but they were heavy. They included the slowing down or dis- continuance of work in lines that depended on the sugar and other industries, but the people bore the situation quietly and there were no serious outbreaks of violence.
 Motion picture houses, sports events and other forms of enter tainment continued to do record business. More than 75,0O0 persons converted the University of Hawaii campus into a thriving amusement center throughout a three-day col- legiate carnival that grossed more than $l0O.OO0 in November. Joe Louis drew $53,000 in nothing more than an exhibition at a $25 tops.
 Changes Permanent
 Some of the changes wrought in Honolulu ar permanent. Much of the military installation is of con- crete or other permanent construc- ton. This includes the fabulous s42.O00 900 Red Hill underground at Pearl Harbor, a system of subter- ranean oil storage unlike anything in the world.
 Although Red Hills contours are familiar to hundreds of thousands comparatively few know that buried 0CuCakkA ASo ouIAhCC AAC GO COAlNICNC~ lined vertical tanks, each higher than a 20-story building, capable of holding 250. 900 900 gallons of fuel oil. The underground was built, of course, because the Navy wanted to get it's fuel oil-4,O 900 barrels of tout of the reach of Japanese bombs.
 Every time Navy men looked at the nest of tanks back of Pearl Harbor Navy Yard they winced at the thought of what few we'll placed bombs would do. Ground was broken on the underground the day after Christmas, l940, and the actual bombing only increased the tempo of the work until 1t was com- pleted Oct. 1, lo43. More than 4,000,- O00 pounds of structural steel and 2I 900 900 pounds of reinforced steel went into 1t.
 Buried 200 feet beneath Red Hills |