Word: ito
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industry has adopted the drastic solution that the government has been urging: concentration of capital and increased efficiency through merger. "We should have done this a long time ago," says Toyobo President Toyosaburo Taniguchi, 64, who will head the new venture with the assistance of Kureha's Kyoichi Ito, 51. The new company, which will keep the name Toyobo, will have a combined capital of $51 million and 32,000 employees in 33 mills. The merger, almost sure to be followed by others, will provide an early test of the industry's ability to make a comeback...
...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 and practices his profession in Tokyo, still remembers...
...began the final air attack. Hellcats and Avengers were able to make selective runs on the slowly moving, almost helpless ship." As Ensign Yoshida recalls, "Men were jumbled together in disorder on the deck. Admiral Ito struggled to his feet. His chief of staff then rose and saluted. A prolonged silence followed. Ito looked around, shook hands deliberately with his staff officers, and then went resolutely to his cabin. The deck was nearly vertical. Shells of the big guns skidded, crashing against the bulkhead and kindling the first of a series of explosions." At 1423 this queen of the battlewagons...