Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them to "those in Napoleon's time." French journalists, accustomed to subsisting off the daily indiscretions of the Cabinet ministers of the Fourth Republic, saw the whole thing in a different light. "Covering the government," moaned one, "is like trying to cover the court of the Emperor of Japan...
...initiative already gained. Art News Executive Editor Thomas B. Hess labeled the U.S. representation at the fair a comical scandal, lacking in seriousness. He called for an all-out showing of the serious abstract painters and sculptors who "in the past 15 years have exerted an international influence, from Japan to Rome...
Such praise makes Horiuchi's eyes brim with gratitude. His early years were difficult and lonely. Trained as a child in Japan in brush and sumi, he came to the U.S. with his family at 15 and settled in Rock Springs, Wyo., where he got a job on the Union Pacific and learned western technique from a visiting WPA art instructor. Two months after Pearl Harbor he was fired, ordered to quit his company house within 24 hours. He burned all the possessions he could not pack into his jalopy and trailer, took to the road with his wife...
...chief executive, Cedric O. Turner, 51 (see cut), a onetime accountant who likes to "get to the facts and cut out the waffle." Taking over in 1951. he set out to model his line after U.S. carriers, expanded Qantas service west to London, north to Hong Kong and Japan, laid new routes east to Hawaii...
...rates up to 10% lower than standard for customers who use only conference ships. Isbrandtsen has refused to join such conferences, holding that they are cartels that add to the cost of foreign trade and discourage free competition. In the early 1950s the line captured 30% of cargoes between Japan and the U.S. East Coast (with only 11% of the sailings) by setting prices 10% below those of the Japan-Atlantic & Gulf Freight Conference, a group of 17 predominantly Japanese and U.S. lines. To meet Isbrandtsen's competition, the conference got U.S. Maritime Board approval of a dual-rate...