34 years ago in TIME: Announcing its first foreign head last week was a big step for Sony. If the Dutch can produce goods of excellent quality, said Akio Morita, the Japanese could do it too.

Announcing its first foreign head last week was a big step for Sony, the Japanese electronics giant that was founded and run for years by AKIO MORITA.

A young businessman named Akio Morita made his first trip outside Japan in 1953 to investigate export prospects for his struggling little electronics…

From the East Indian realm of plump Queen Wilhelmina came challenging news that rubber production there has topped 93,000 tons for 1927, an increase of almost 400% in five years.

In tropic climes, on opposite sides of the twirling globe, shrewd men watched anxiously, last week, the struggle of Great Britain to maintain her world monopolistic grip on rubber.

From the East Indian realm of plump and prim Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands came challenging news that rubber production there…