One day last month in Hilo (pop. 23,000), on the island of Hawaii, a 35-year-old ex-G.I. named Woodrow Dodds, from Tiffin, Ohio, found himself out of a job. He had been one of no workers discharged when the island's only modern laundry closed. As dirty laundry piled up in Hilo's houses, hotels and hospitals, Dodds got an idea.
He hustled over to the Hawaiian Airlines, Ltd. office, learned that it cost 2ยข a pound to fly freight to Wailuku on the island of Maui, 126 miles away. Dodds hopped over to Wailuku and made a deal with Manager Joe Gehring...
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