Word: matsushita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such a situation to kill and another merely to get drunk is a question psychologists have never really answered. There is no doubt that violence has a cathartic effect, and the pressures that cause it must find an outlet of one kind or another. (Japan's Matsushita Electric Co. has set up a dummy of the foreman that workers can beat up on a given day once a week, thereby presumably releasing their aggressions...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR ROSWELL MAGILL THURGOOD MARSHALL JOSEPH W. MARTIN JR. WILLIAM MCCHESNEY MARTIN JR. LOUIS MARX KONOSUKE MATSUSHITA BILL MAULDIN
...supplying 49% of the capital for a $16 million steel mill in Malaya. Matsushita Electric has started a battery plant in Thailand and an assembly plant for transistor radios and TV sets on Formosa. Japanese companies run a department store in Hong Kong and a toothpaste factory in Malaya, make gasoline rickshas in Pakistan and fountain pens in India. Altogether, no Japanese companies have moved into Southeast Asia...
...HITACHI, LTD., an electronics manufacturer, climbed from 17th place to eleventh in the standings, largely on the strength of rising demand in Japan for its telecommunications equipment; YAWATA IRON & STEEL advanced from 26th to 20th on increased use of its steel by Japan's expanding construction industry, and MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL (TIME cover, Feb. 23) rose from 74th to 56th with its fast-moving radios and TV sets. In addition, there were four Japanese newcomers to the 100, including highly automated KOBE STEEL WORKS, which leaped into 69th place...
...luck," sniffed canny Electrical Industry Wizard Konosuke Matsushita, 67, when Rubber Tycoon Shojiro Ishibashi, president of Bridgestone Tire Co., beat him out as Japan's top 1960 moneymaker. "I'll be back on top again." Good as his word, Matsushita piled up a personal income of $988,000 for 1961 (minus a tax bite of $660,000), to head the list for the sixth time in seven years. Rival Ishibashi, down on his luck, wound up seventh with a mere...