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This company’s products tended to corrode quickly due to their use of top-secret 7075 aluminum alloy, or “extra super duralumin.” The Scottish merchant Thomas Blake Glover helped establish this company in the 1870s as a shipping and coal mining venture, which quickly absorbed a rival steamship line that became its subsidiary NYK. John Thach developed the “Thach Weave” to counter this company’s products; one of those products underwent (*) reverse-engineering after being found on Akutan Island. Workers forced into labor at this company’s shipyards were awarded damages by the South Korean Supreme Court in 2018 as part of an ongoing trade dispute. Jirō Horikoshi designed the Raiden (“rye-den”) and the A5M as chief engineer for this zaibatsu. (10[1])For 10 points, name this conglomerate and auto manufacturer that, during WWII, built armaments and planes like the Zero. ■END■

ANSWER: Mitsubishi [or the Mitsubishi Group, Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, or the Mitsubishi Aircraft Company; accept Mitsubishi Motors]
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2023 Chicago Open08/05/2023Y1100%0%0%114.00