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MasTec, Inc. (NYSE: MTZ) has agreed to acquire Henkels & McCoy Group Inc. for total consideration of $600 million. The purchase price consists of ~$420 million in cash, including the repayment of ...
Drew Lewis. Andrew Lindsay Lewis Jr. (November 3, 1931 – February 10, 2016), generally known as Drew Lewis, was an American businessman and politician from the state of Pennsylvania. He was United States Secretary of Transportation in the first portion of the administration of U.S. President Ronald W. Reagan, and is best known for presiding ...
Racketeering, bookmaking, illegal gambling, drug trafficking, murder, extortion, weapons trafficking, loan-sharking, prostitution, money laundering, burglary. The Company, also called the Hawaiian Syndicate, is the name given to an organized crime syndicate based in Hawaii that controlled criminal activities in the state from the late 1960s to ...
History of Hawaii. Ancient Hawaiʻi is the period of Hawaiian history preceding the unification in 1810 of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi by Kamehameha the Great. Traditionally, researchers estimated the first settlement of the Hawaiian islands as having occurred sporadically between 400 and 1100 CE by Polynesian long-distance navigators from the ...
The history of Hawaii is the story of human settlements in the Hawaiian Islands. Polynesians arrived sometime between 940 and 1200 AD. [1][2] Kamehameha I, the ruler of the island of Hawaii, conquered and unified the islands for the first time, establishing the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1795. [3] The kingdom became prosperous and important for its ...
Davies took full control of the company after Janion died in 1881, and incorporated his growing interests in the sugar industry. The business expanded to add departments for steamship agents, grocery stores, dry goods, and hardware. Under the laws of the Provisional Government of Hawaii, it became Theo. H. Davies & Co., Ltd. in January, 1894.
Coinciding with other 1960s and 1970s indigenous activist movements, the Hawaiian sovereignty movement was spearheaded by Native Hawaiian activist organizations and individuals who were critical of issues affecting modern Hawaii, including the islands' urbanization and commercial development, corruption in the Hawaiian Homelands program, and appropriation of native burial grounds and other ...
There are gaps and overlaps in the dates due to the six-month journey from the eastern United States to Hawaii at the time. [1] John Coffin Jones Jr. 1820–1839. Peter A. Brinsmade April 1839 – July 1844. Alexander G. Abell July 1844 – June 1846 [2] Joel Turrill 1846–1850. Elisha Hunt Allen 1850–1853.