Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Southward from Tokyo to the sea, railway tracks writhed and telegraph poles came reeling down as the earth crust moved and slithered. With all communications cut, soaring airplanes could only report that at Osaka, second largest city of Japan, fires had broken out, and that Kobe, third city, biggest port, was in confusion. Reputedly, the Amarubes Bridge, longest railway bridge in the Far East, had shaken down...
...some 20 miles of road and railroad were built-will never be used again. Numbers. Princes, ambassadors, nobles, and army and navy officers to the number of 12,000 participated in the funeral, while two million commoners looked on. Pageant. At 4 p. m. the streets of Tokyo were closed to traffic of any sort. At 6 p. m. the present Emperor, Hirohito, the Dowager Empress and the three brothers of the Emperor, emerged from the Imperial Palace in their red and gold motors. All electricity was shut off, and in the gathering dusk thousands of lanterns winked and iron...
Kuhn, Loeb & Co. has loaned money to other governments? Sweden, Holland, Austria, Argentina, Cuba, Chile, Germany, Czechoslovakia; to foreign municipalities ?Paris, Antwerp, Bordeaux, Lyons, Marseille, Tokyo, Prague, Christiania, and the Department of the Seine (France). This international banking, since the War. had become of high importance to the U. S. More money is available here for investment than can be absorbed by domestic corporations and municipalities; and to place money abroad, investors must rely upon the expertness and knowledge of reliable international banking houses. Knowing this, the Governors of the New York Stock Exchange are seeking to list foreign...
Though even Royalty honors great sumos with medals and decorations, Mayor Nishikubo of Tokyo ranks, as an exponent of Kenjutsu (fencing), above the most renowned wrestlers and on a par with the most honored ju-jutsuists...
Recently the citizens of Tokyo chose famed swordsman-fencer Hiromichi Nishikubo as their Mayor. Last week he stepped upon a pair of scales to determine whether his now sedentary life has affected his weight. It has not. Mayor Nishikubo still weighs 238 pounds...