Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force last week closed its books on the case of the Bumping Colonel and the Angry General. The colonel: Lieut. Colonel Charles Platt Jr., who bulldozed his way onto a Military Air Transport Service plane in Japan last month, unseating half a dozen Stateside-bound G.I.s. The general: Lieut. General Robert Whitney Burns, boss of U.S. military forces in Japan, who ordered the plane to return to its base and personally drove over to Tokyo's Tachikawa Airport to put the G.I.s back in their seats and to chew out Colonel Platt (TIME, April 13). As punishment for having...
...India now has one of the world's lowest crop yields per acre (the average yield of rice per acre is one-third of Japan's). India uses only a fraction of its potential water supply, one of the world's largest. Shockingly, India gets only a 20% to 25% increase in irrigated lands over nonirrigated...
...submarine-6 ft. 5½ in. But the subs are what he picked when he graduated from Annapolis in 1943, and he fought the war in a slightly stooped position on board the Peto, was awarded a Silver Star for "gallantry and intrepidity in action" off Japan when he swam through the shelling of shore batteries to rescue a downed airman...
...Smith is not alone in asking how much longer the U.S. can afford the contrast between the $3.03 average U.S. steel wage and, according to latest available figures, the 89? average for Luxembourg, the 78? average for Belgium, the 68? average for West Germany, or the 41? for Japan. One obvious but unlikely solution is for foreign countries to raise wages faster, share more of the benefits of rising productivity with their workers, as the U.S. does...
...better than $400,000. The backlog of firm orders was up to $77 million, biggest in the company's history, and a 10? dividend was declared, the third such quarterly dividend in a row. Last week Bill Lear was looking for more. He got ready to fly to Japan to line up Japanese engineering and manufacturing talent for production of a new private plane to cash in on the world market for private flying...