Word: ito
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kameo Ito, chief of the government's Yamagata meteorological observatory, bases his theory on a close study of the air waves from U.S. and Soviet tests. When a bomb is exploded on the ground or near it, says Ito, the shock waves spreading upward into the lower stratosphere are lengthened and delayed by air conditions there. Eventually they are refracted downward and reach microbarographs in Japan a few minutes behind the shorter waves that have passed directly through the lower atmosphere...
...microbarographs showed a difference. With each explosion (the U.S. has announced only one), the initial, shortwave phase decreased, indicating that the bombs were being exploded higher and higher in the atmosphere. On July 3, the Japanese picked up a wave pattern" that had almost no short waves. Ito thinks this proves that the explosion took place above 22 miles. If it did, Ito reasons, the bomb must have been carried by a rocket. No existing bomber can fly so high...
Family Man. In Tokyo, Akira Ito was arrested for stealing 65 cameras valued at $3.900, despite his explanation that he badly needed the money to support his four mistresses and their four children...
...stink began to rise three months ago when a Korean confidence man named Masutomi Ito was arrested for bilking thousands of small investors of some $3,000,000 in an investment-trust racket. Swindler Ito spent part of his plunder on such delicacies as broiled eels in Tokyo and an expensive mistress in Kyoto. He admitted that he had continued to solicit funds even after his investment company had gone bankrupt, blandly told police: "If this constitutes fraud, I'm afraid there's nothing I can do about...
Geisha Galas. As investigators looked deeper into Ito's financial shenanigans, they found a trail that led, indirectly, to scores of respected businessmen and government officials. A Tokyo moneylender whom police linked to Ito's financial operations said that these were small compared to the way subsidized shipbuilders used government money to bribe officials for more subsidies. The moneylender backed up his story with a list of wild geisha parties thrown by shipbuilders and subcontractors for government officials, including seven members of Yoshida's Cabinet. Altogether, 600 geishas were involved in the parties. Soon 100 suspects, among...