The Dillingham family and their guests take the last train trip over Oahu Railway's tracks. Railway service is replaced by bus and trucking service.
United Airlines starts daily flights from the mainland.
Hawaiian Airlines steps up schedule to provide 50 flights daily between the Islands.
Chinn Ho purchases 9,000 acres in Makaha Valley, the largest land buy by an Asian in Hawai`i.
Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company, operating passenger and freight vessels between the Islands since 1883, discontinues passenger service.
Telephone service restored to Asia and other foreign countries silent during the war.
$349,627,000 worth of imports arrive in Hawai`i; exports total $236,433,000.
Five-day strike against Maui Pineapple fails.
Amos Ignacio, ILWU leader on Hawai`i island, forms Union of Hawaiian Workers, dedicated to anticommunism.
