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Last week as strikebreakers (hired for $1.25 a day) patrolled Kakuji Natsukawa's mills and drumbeat a continuous tattoo to drown out the shouts of strikers, Natsukawa calmly fired some 760 striking workers for what he called "poor achievement," and threatened to confine other strikers to their dormitories for a month. Government officials swarmed over his mills, and the Labor Ministry appointed a committee to negotiate a settlement, but Boss Natsukawa's faith remained firm. "Almighty Buddha will protect me," he said. "I am not an ordinary capitalist...
...chairman of the Sperry Corp. Like Gray, he grew up in North Carolina, but on a different level. The son of an impoverished tobacco farmer, he worked his way through high school, enlisted in the Navy (he still bears a permanent souvenir of his Navy days: a forearm rose tattoo). One day in 1911, aboard the battleship U.S.S. Delaware, Chief Electrician Morgan helped an inventor named Elmer Sperry install a new gyroscopic compass for a test. Sperry was so impressed that he hired Morgan, who worked up through the Sperry ranks, became president in 1928, expanded the firm into...
...official veterinarian arrives to make sure the grey horse's lip tattoo matches the one listed for Native Dancer (F6888), takes his temperature (99.4) and pulse...
ABORIGINAL "MODERN" brings the jungle into the living room. "In what is called 'advanced' design" fabrics must be "printed with abstract symbols appropriate only as tattoo markings on the belly of a New Guinea head-hunter...
...rolls up sleeve and bares anti-Communist tattoo): Freedom! I didn't come to Korea of my own free will...