Sugar strike occurs.
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Matsonia returns to Honolulu with her first post-war civilian passengers.
Trans Pacific Airlines founded; later becomes Aloha Airlines.
Hawai`i Visitors Bureau begins to heavily promote Hawai`i to mainland and abroad.
British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines, forerunner of Qantas and Philippine Airlines, begins trans-Pacific route with stops in Honolulu.
Six thousand Filipino men arrive in the Islands in six shipments, the last major wave of immigration from the Philippines before the national origin system of immigration regulation is abolished in 1965.
Pan-American World Airways resumes civilian operations with a daily schedule between Hawai`i and the mainland.
United Airlines inaugerates flights between San Francisco and Hawai`i.
Hawai`i inherits airports and airport installations from the military, including John Rodgers (Honolulu) Airport, Lyman Field at Hilo and Moloka`i airfield.
Commercial rent controls lifted; many small merchants in downtown Honolulu are squeezed out of their locations by rising costs.
$236,307,000 worth of imports arrive in Hawai`i; exports total $140,043,000.
