Word: ishikawajima
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...barge-borne plant was towed by tugboat through the Indian and Atlantic oceans on a 15,000-mile, 93-day voyage from Kure, Japan, where it had been built by Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (I.H.I.). In Brazil, it was taken to a docking area that had been constructed by 2,500 workers on the Jari River, an Amazon tributary 250 miles inland. The factory and its separate 55,000-kw power plant was floated into position over 4,000 submerged pilings last month. Then water under the pilings was drained, and Brazil's Munguba district, which before Ludwig...
...Keidanren's image is the first order of business for its new president, former Toshiba Electric Chairman Toshiwo Doko. At 77 - only three years younger than his predecessor -Doko continues Keidanren's tradition of gerontocracy. But he is a man of action who skippered the recovery of Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (shipbuilding), then switched to Toshiba in 1965 and led its resurgence from a deep plunge into debt...