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...increasing tendency to hobble U.S. investments, did not like the taste of its own medicine; stocks on the Toronto exchange fell 21% in one day. Japan's stock market suffered its worst one-day loss in history, the decline being led by companies (such as Sony and Hitachi) that depend heavily on U.S. public financing...
...Hitachi, Ltd., the Japanese electrical giant that is equally adept at making tiny transistor radios and huge hydroelectric generators, last week gave the U.S. electrical industry a stinging lesson in how to get U.S. Government contracts. Hitachi won a $612,659 contract to build two 4,500-h.p. hydraulic turbines for the Interior Department's Blue Mesa power plant in Colorado, and another $3,221,813 contract to supply eight pump turbines for a federal reclamation project in California's San Joaquin valley. It won the awards simply because its bids ranged from 5% to 41% lower than...
...under joint British-Dutch management: ROYAL DUTCH SHELL (sales: $5.6 billion) and UNILEVER, LTD. ($4 billion). But the biggest gains were scored by Japanese firms. Sales jumped an average 23% for the ten Japanese companies that made the top 100 in both 1960 and 1961. Three did outstandingly well: HITACHI, LTD., an electronics manufacturer, climbed from 17th place to eleventh in the standings, largely on the strength of rising demand in Japan for its telecommunications equipment; YAWATA IRON & STEEL advanced from 26th to 20th on increased use of its steel by Japan's expanding construction industry, and MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC...
...deft-fingered, teen-aged girl, accumulating a dowry and delighted to work for $23.34 a month and dormitory space. Furthermore, the Japanese have successfully overcome their greatest drawback, the tendency to export poor-quality goods. The government refuses to license substandard products. Individual Japanese companies are even more exacting. Hitachi, Ltd. of Tokyo, one of the leading makers, recalled an entire U.S. shipment because one plastic case color ran slightly...
Tiny Portable. A six-transistor, one-battery portable radio that weighs half a pound and measures only 2¼ in. by 3⅛ by if in.-slightly larger than a cigarette box-was put on sale in the U.S. by Japan's Hitachi, Ltd. Price...