Word: tokyo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...World War II, we began to consolidate our 21 widely scattered editions, including the wartime V-mail miniature which many an ex-G.I. still keeps as a souvenir of his overseas duty. These became TIME Atlantic, printed in Paris; TIME Pacific, printed in Tokyo; TIME Latin America, printed in Havana, and TIME Canadian, printed in Chicago...
ONCE printed, the magazines are sent to more than 700 distributing agencies over 400,000 miles of air routes and 200,000 miles of ocean, e.g., from the Tokyo printer to Auckland, N.Z. is an 8,200-mile airlift. Broken-field running through a maze of import controls, taxes and quotas, TLI often comes up against fluctuating money markets, which in the past year, for example, caused one nation's currency to drop from 300 to 780 to the dollar, and another's from...
...watch, 1,000 workers assemble diesel trucks and little Fiat cars. Another factory builds boxcars for Mexican railways, employs 228 men. The third is a $4,000,000 made-in-Japan factory that last week started producing the first made-in-Mexico textile manufacturing machinery. Financed mostly by Tokyo's Toyoda Mills, it is run by Japanese engineers, employs 800 Mexicans whose highest skill until lately was making mescal...
...dust. The explosion on March 1, 1954 behaved differently because it was a "tower shot" that stirred up millions of tons of quick-settling coral dust. First radioactive material from the May 21 explosion was brought home by the tuna boat Stiruga Maru. Analyzed by Dr. Kenjiro Kimura of Tokyo University, it proved to contain a familiar array of fission products-ruthenium, rhodium, tellurium, iodine, cerium, neodymium, etc.-as well as uranium 237 and neptunium 239. This combination of elements indicated that the explosion was the "fission-fusion-fission" type, which gets much of its energy from the fission...
...scientists had predicted, radioactive dust began to settle out of the stratosphere over Japan. Coming into the troposphere, it mingled with the clouds and fell to earth as radioactive rain. Even before rain fell, the normal air radioactivity of 50 counts per minute rose to 400 counts at Tokyo. Rain at Matsue on the Sea of Japan registered as high as 89,000 counts. Japan's weather bureau announced, to soothe the jittery public, that more radioactive rain was to be expected, but that it would probably not be harmful to humans...