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Within the next six months, Nippon Yusen Kaisha will have six big fast new freighters plying between Manhattan arid the Orient. At Havre, the French Line is busy prettifying the launched Normandie for her queenship of the seas next summer. But far the busiest shipyards in the world are the British. Next month Her Majesty Queen Mary will travel north to the Clyde there to launch a 73,000-ton monster which in 1936 will take away the Normandie's crown of size. And the name which Queen Mary will cry as she whangs the bottle, will not be Britannia...
...swelled from 80,000 bales in 1900 to 500,000 bales in 1929, of which the U. S. took 73%. This was wealth to the Kata-kura brothers. In 1920 they recapitalized their company at 52,000,000 yen, gave it a more resounding name: Katakura Seishi Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha (Katakura Raw-Silk, Spun Silk Manufacturing Co. Ltd.). Today it is one of the largest and oldest silk reeling firms in the world. It is a huge producer of pedigreed silkworm eggs, has 28 silkworm moths each lay her eggs neatly in one of 28 squares on a card, sells...
...Fascist forge Benito Mussolini hammered three big Italian firms into the Italia Line, cocky owner of the new S. S. Rex and S. S. Conte di Savoia. Roosevelt-Dollar-Dawson interests combined to take over tottering U. S. Lines. Japan's two largest shipping companies, Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japan Mail Steamship Co.) and Osaka Shosen Kaisha (Osaka Mercantile Steamship Co.) last year agreed to divide some of their far-flung traffic. Last week it was reported that officials of these two big lines were negotiating an actual consolidation...
Nippon Yusen Kaisha is a big if not rich province in the business empire of the Iwasaki, Japan's No. 2 industrial family. Under the family trade name, Mitsubishi ("Three Diamonds," derived from their crest), they own steel works, shipbuilding plants, chemical, electrical equipment and airplane factories, banks, insurance companies, trading companies, urban real estate. As industrial pioneers they rank ahead of the omnipotent house of Mitsui, Japan's No. 1 family. But unlike the ancient house of Mitsui, the Iwasaki fortune dates only from Japan's first industrial stirrings 60 years ago. And unlike the Mitsui...
...Treaty cost him his life; Second Junnosuke Inouye, the soundest and most brilliant Japanese Finance Minister in a generation; and Third Dr. Dan?to name only the Big Three. Biggest as a Peace Man, from the practical standpoint, was Banker Dan. He had thrown the weight of Mitsui Gomel Kaisha against war, unsuccessfully...