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...pearly haze. He was Kokichi Mikimoto, who has annoyed more oysters for more profit than any other man. Last week the longtime king of Japan's culture-pearl industry declared the largest personal income in Japan in the first year of American occupation. He had netted three million yen ($200,000) selling pearls to the conquerors...
...three-year-old annoyed oysters a year, got usable pearls from about 5% when they were 7-9 years old. In the depression he shoveled as high as 720,000 cultured pearls into furnaces to keep prices up. By 1939 the U.S. alone was buying about 3,000,000 yen worth ($750,000) a year, half of them Mikimoto...
...reporters. Prewar Asahi had a fleet of 80 automobiles, 40 gliders, 20 airplanes. Now it is down to seven wheezy cars, and insists that one reason it needs a big staff is that its men take so long to get around. Reporters start at a meager 255 yen a month ($14), get frequent bonuses to help them break even...
That's easy. Hoffenstein's get-nowhere say nothing script condemns the picture from the start. The potential comedy in a story about a maid with a yen for fixing plumbing and an over-frank manner in the presence of superiors gets stuck in an under brush of plot complications. Given this bad material to work with, Lubitsch has made the worst of it. He has miscast both Miss Jones and Boyer in light comedy parts, and his attempts at satirizing English high-life seem ponderous, especially when handled by Peter Lawford and Helen Walker. Add to this a further...
...second Mitsui enterprise was a pawnshop. Later, a money-changing office grew into the great banking system which financed and controlled the Mitsui merchandising, manufacturing and shipping empire. In 1937 the private wealth of the eleven Mitsui family heads was estimated at 1,635,000,000 yen ($450 million...