Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sometime journalist and poet and now aide to Socialist Mayor Brauer of Hamburg, has waged a one-man campaign to remind Germans of the enormity of the Nazi crimes against Jews, helped campaign for a restitution payment ($822 million, most of it to be paid to the Israel government), persuaded thousands of Germans to sign declarations acknowledging the onus of national guilt, and launched a campaign among schoolchildren to plant 10,000 olive trees in Israel...
Mannequins & Skaters. The way out was Oak Park, Mich.'s Palmer Paint Co., which he bought with a down payment of $4,000 that he had saved (and $4,000 he borrowed from friends). With two full-time employees and a part-time office girl, the company grossed $2,500 a month selling poster paint to artist supply houses. "I saw right off the bat," says Klein, "that the field was too confined." He soon expanded it by selling his paints to mannequin makers and skating rinks (for painting designs under ice). "Well, today we are a big supplier...
...boat was raised, repaired, but before it could be sent to sea again, one of Bastianazzo's three sons was killed while serving in the navy. "Every wind," people said, "is contrary to a broken ship." Final payment of the debt had to be postponed again & again. "Long things turn into snakes,", the neighbors were saying. In the end they were right; the owner of the lost cargo foreclosed, and the Malavoglia lost their heart's ease at day's end-the house by the medlar tree...
...long-term contract for all the output of the Patino mines-about half Bolivia's production. And last week there were encouraging reports that the Patino interests were about ready to settle with government negotiators on the big question of compensation. Such a deal, reported to provide for payment of 5% of net sales into a fund from which the former owners would be reimbursed, could set the pattern for a settlement with all shareholders...
Back in the. Fellata there are men who whisper to him that these regulations are made by infidel foreigners. For payment of ?5 ($14), these men offer to get the pilgrim across the Red Sea without any trouble. For years sharp Arab operators have lived off this illegal traffic, and how many hundreds of pilgrims have died as a result, no one will ever know...