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On the mainland, unemployment was slightly higher in May-October, 1949 than
in May-October, 1948. The rise in unemployment in Hawaii was great, from
around 10,000 to nearly 30,000, the highest level in Hawaii's history. In the
June-July, 1962 period, while unemployment on the mainland was below the
same 1941 period, inr Hawaii it was above the same 1961 period.
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Whereas the level of construction was essentially the same In 1948 and 1949
(May-October) on the mainland, during this strilce period in Hawaii it declined
precipitously during the first four months of the strike and then recovered some-
what as a triclUe of essential materials came in. But even this recovery left the
volume of construction activity at the end of the period as only some two-thirds
of the same period in the prior years.
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