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...Sharp Prosperity Amid Paddies"). Tanaka was born in a rice-belt village, in Niigata prefecture, the son of a horse trader who had a financially fatal weakness for gambling. At 16, young Tanaka quit school and lit out for Tokyo, where for three years he ran errands for a contractor by day and studied the construction business by night. Tanaka's budding business career was briefly sidetracked when the Imperial Army drafted him and sent him to Manchuria. But he contracted pneumonia and was discharged a month before Pearl Harbor-in time to organize a small contracting firm...
Throaty Style. In 1947 the young contractor (he was then 28) entered Japan's second postwar election and won the first of his ten successive terms in the Diet. He began to command national attention at 39, when he was named Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, his first Cabinet job. Soon after his appointment, he consented during a radio interview to demonstrate his throaty singing style by crooning a ballad in praise of gambling, which is outlawed in Japan. The party's old guard gasped, the newspapers dubbed Tanaka "Minister Without IQ," but the performance drew high ratings...
...Roofing Contractor John Conforti had just finished dinner when the bell rang at his $65,000 split-level home in Massapequa, L.I. There on the porch stood two agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs with a warrant to search for $4,000,000 in profits from the sale of heroin. Would he surrender the money? Conforti said he didn't know anything about it. The two then summoned some 20 more agents waiting near by, armed with sledgehammers, crowbars and other wrecking equipment...
...sent other models aloft on radio controlled subsonic flights. Building a full-scale prototype would be costly and would undoubtedly involve difficult engineering problems, but NASA apparently shares Jones' enthusiasm for the plane. It recently awarded a contract for studies of the antisymmetric design to Boeing, the frustrated contractor for the vetoed American...
...life as a maker of magic coins, trick mirrors, chauffeurs' badges and dispensers for toilet paper and soap. Before World War II, however, it developed the first seamless cartridge casing, and by V-J day it had "produced more kinds and sizes of artillery cases than any other contractor," according to a company brochure. During the Korean conflict, Norris operated the largest single plant producing cartridge cases for the U.N. forces, and the increased U.S. involvement in Viet Nam caused it to build two new ordnance-making plants in the mid-1960s, raising the total to five...