Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Trans-Siberian Railroad links the western, European part of the country to the Asian region in the east. The passenger trains involved were traveling between Novosibirsk, the largest town in Siberia with a population of 1.3 million, and Adler, a popular health resort...
...find anyone swinging a sledgehammer at a Toyota in Blytheville, Ark. Situated in one of the most impoverished sections of the U.S., the Mississippi River town (pop. 24,000) has outdone itself trying to make Japanese business people feel welcome. In 1985, when Blytheville first learned that the Japanese steel firm Yamato Kogyo and North Carolina-based Nucor were looking for a 500-acre site to build a jointly owned mill, the townspeople rallied to action. The school system agreed to add extra English classes and hire special tutors. The Cotton Boll Vocational and Technical School promised low-cost training...
...Arkansans kept up their wooing even after the bride was won. Once Nucor and Yamato picked Blytheville for the $230 million mill, the town chose eight civic leaders to travel to Japan at public expense to see what more could be done. Shortly after ground was broken for the plant in 1987, tempura and stir- fried dishes were on the menu at the Holiday Inn and townspeople were flocking to seminars on Japanese culture and business...
...says Sam Kitadai, a director of the board at the mill and one of about a dozen Japanese living in Blytheville. So are the locals. The plant produces 550,000 tons of steel a year and employs 366 people. Local trucking and service companies have sprung up, giving the town an additional 150 jobs. "I don't have the words to tell you what the plant means to us," says Mayor Joe Gude. "It has people thinking positive again...
Wilson, when contacted at the Sheraton-Commander Hotel in Cambridge last night, refused comment on the appointment. In town with her husband, Paul Smith, Wilson referred questions to the Board of Trustees...