Word: kaisha
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...Converted Nippon Yusen Kaisha liners...
...canned salmon heated on the exhaust manifold (food cost: 25? a day), pressed his trousers by using the running board and a towel for the ironing board; alto gether saved $375. Then he worked his way across the U.S. to his native North west, stopped at the Nippon Yusen Kaisha office in Seattle and paid $195 for a round-trip ticket to Yokohama, tourist class...
Died. Alexander Mair Stewart, 82, Canadian-born building contractor responsible for the erection of Mitsui Gomei Kaisha bank in Tokyo, the Hotel Savoy in London, Château Frontenac in Quebec, the capitols of Utah, Oklahoma, Idaho, Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, and in Washington the Interstate Commerce, Department of Labor and U. S. Chamber of Commerce buildings; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...mentioning the performance itself, of course, remarks might be passed on about the remarkable costuming, about the Savannah heat-wave, Rose Brown, whose Kaisha was vaguely reminiscent of Josephine Baker, but it's all quite futile. The show belongs to the great Bojangles. The rest of the cast can only be thankful that they have a chance to do something in the first act, for when Robinson comes on in the second, he takes over and all the rest of the cast can do is sit back and shrug. It would be nice to bounce one's grand-children...
...paunchy, grey-haired Oriental President Lewis Henry, of Elmira, N. Y., sold his company to Nihon Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Nippon Mining Co., Ltd.). The deal: $756,700 cash; two payments of $756,700 within 30 and 60 days respectively; $4,542,000 payable by Aug. 31, 1942; $1,362,500 payable by Aug. 31, 1943. All deferred payments were guaranteed by the Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd., New York City, with interest at 4%. To President Henry-whose late client Jacob Sloat Fassett (onetime Congressman and Republican leader of New York's Senate) was a backer of Promoter Hunt -this...