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Hawaiʻi's Journey to Statehood | The Pineapple King | 2
American History Tellers
How to Start a Cannery in Honolulu
In late 1902 Dole established a key partnership with Joseph Hunt of Hunt Brothers a Northern California fruit packer and wholesale grocery distributor. The two men met while Dole was traveling the US to raise funds and buy cannery equipment. By 1905 Dole's original cannery couldn't keep up so he convinced Hunt to help him build a modern new cannery near the Honolulu piers. But then in October of 1907 a financial crisis spread across the United States causing the stock market to plunge Many consumers considered pineapples a luxury item and demand plummeted. 1908 promised to bring a record crop of pineapples but even if he had his operation running at full speed it would come crashing down, I
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