Word: maru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flock of pigeons burst skyward into the midday Yokohama sun, released in celebration from their papier-mâché prison. Bands blared and confetti swirled over the waters of Tokyo Bay. Japan, the world's biggest shipbuilder, was launching the world's biggest ship: the Tokyo Maru, a bulb-nosed 1,006-ft.-long, 150,000-ton oil tanker...
...squat little Japanese freighter, the Taian Maru, churned through the Pacific last week on a historic journey. On its way from Coos Bay, Ore., to Puerto Rico with a load of Pacific Northwest lumber, the Taian Maru is the first foreign flag ship in more than four decades to carry cargo from one U.S. port to another...
...built in the U.S. (required by the Jones Act to aid U.S. shipyards) has risen until it is twice that of building a Japanese ship. And low-wage foreign flag vessels operate for about $800 a day v. a U.S. ship's $1,900. Small wonder the Taian Maru is hauling the Coos Bay shipment for $40 per 1,000 board feet -$17 less than the lowest...
...import oil from the Middle East. His blushing daughter Junko will swing the champagne bottle, but since the huge ship is too bulky to slide down the ways, water will be let into its massive drydock until it is afloat. The new tanker's name is Nissho Maru, which means "Rising Sun," and at the launching there will be banzais all around...
Aboard the Japanese freighter Oshima Maru, which left Yokohama last week, were two stone garden lanterns on their way to Hyannisport, Mass. The lanterns -one a three-ton, nine-foot model called kasuga, the other a one-ton, four-footer called yukimi ("snow-viewing" lantern)-are a present for President Kennedy from Professor Gunji Honoso, silver-haired international law expert at Tokyo's Aoyama Gakuin University, who got to know the President back in the days when Kennedy was a junketing Senator. Cost of both lanterns...