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...there was little bitterness among the Japanese-Americans. "A word that I heard over and over again whenever there would be an incident or a slight was shikataganai, which means 'it can't be helped.' " The Silent Fan. In 1926, when Yamasaki was a sophomore at Garfield High, his mother's brother, Koken Ito, came to stay at the Yamasaki home. Ito had earned an architectural degree at the University of California at Berkeley, and when he began working on some drawings in his room, he found himself with an avid fan. Ito, who now lives...
...celebrated :he centennial of its founding as the Army Medical Museum, tourists still admired an Sickles' leg. They could also gape at a lock of Lincoln's hair, a bone sliver from his skull, and bullet-shattered vertebrae from Assassin John Wilkes Booth and President James A. Garfield. But pathology, the study of disease processes, has far outgrown the two rear rooms above the Riggs Bank that first housed the Army Medical Museum. The institute, which is a combined effort of all three armed forces, now serves a score of civilian Government agencies; it works closely with independent...
...little-known Canadian baker named Garfield Weston journeyed down to Wall Street armed with an idea and $10,000. The $10,000 he paid to a Wall Street tipster to get him just five minutes with some of the cash-heavy New York financiers who had made a killing by selling short in the Great Crash. Then, to five of Wall Street's biggest "bears," including Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, Weston offered his idea: buy up British bakeries at Depression prices to provide a readymade outlet for Canada's vast supplies of cheap wheat...
Since then, capitalizing on the same combination of audacity, ingenuity and persuasiveness, slim, strong-minded Garfield Weston, 64, has built the biggest business ever fashioned by a Canadian-a food-processing and retailing empire that reaches into nine countries on four continents and last year ran up sales of $3.4 billion. The world's biggest baker and one of its three biggest grocers,* Weston has 400 supermarkets in Europe alone. Among his holdings: the U.S.'s National Tea Co., Canada's Loblaw Groceterias, Australia's Tip Top Bakeries, Britain's huge (more than 200 subsidiaries...
...leaves to haunt the bread and biscuit factories of Britain. When he returned to Canada, he got his father to import some of the machines and recipes he had learned about. By the time the elder Weston died in 1924, the family business was already growing rapidly. But Garfield Weston was not satisfied. Said he: "I'm not going to build a costly monument to my father. I'm going to make his name known round the world...