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...major deal that was heavily freighted with international politics, Japan's All Nippon Airways last week ordered six of Lockheed's L-1011 Tri-Stars, which are powered by Britain's Rolls-Royce engines. The $130 million sale was a sorely needed and roughly won victory for Lockheed, which was saved from bankruptcy by a $250 million federal loan guarantee 14 months ago and is counting considerably on the TriStar for its future. The plane nosed out McDonnell Douglas's DC-10 and a short-range version of Boeing's 747 for the All Nippon...
...July 1971, 162 persons were killed after a collision over Japan between an All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 Sabre jet fighter...
...Japan now has orders for 34.5 million tons of ships, almost five times as much as the country in second place, Sweden; the U.S. has orders for only 2.7 million tons. To examine Japan's success, Nickel visited one of the world's most advanced yards, the Nippon Kokan Shipyard at Tsu in central Japan, which builds vessels of up to 250,000 tons. His report...
Hull Trick. Completed three years ago in less than 20 months on land reclaimed from Ise Bay, the yard was designed to build two huge ships at the same time with a minimum of manpower. Steel plates are delivered by sea from Nippon Kokan's Fukuyama steelworks 300 miles away and fed into a computer-controlled process in which they are marked, cut, shaped and welded into major hull blocks. Two giant cranes that straddle the building dock then lift these components into place, and they are welded to the hull-again mostly by an automatic process. Another labor...
...fringe benefits help to inspire both hard work and loyalty. For 20?, a worker can eat a company-subsidized lunch, and for $13.35 a month he can live in a company-subsidized, three-room apartment. He can take a free vacation at one of the company-owned lodges, or Nippon Kokan will pay the first $3.30 of his daily hotel bill. Medical care for workers and their families is almost totally company financed; an appendectomy costs about $2. Workers can use the company gym and playing field and can shop in the company-operated discount store. Most important, shipyard employees...