04-24-2018, 07:06 AM
"Was our golden years - in the 1920s through the 1950s."
Or Not !
The Great Depression hit Hawai'i hard, as employment in the sugar and pineapple industries declined during the early 1930s. In December 1936, about one-quarter of Hawai'i's labor force was unemployed.
In Hawai'i, martial law was declared within hours of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and it lasted, with some modifications, for nearly three years, until October 24, 1944.
Or Not !
The Great Depression hit Hawai'i hard, as employment in the sugar and pineapple industries declined during the early 1930s. In December 1936, about one-quarter of Hawai'i's labor force was unemployed.
In Hawai'i, martial law was declared within hours of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and it lasted, with some modifications, for nearly three years, until October 24, 1944.