Word: schoolchildren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French cuffs on his monogrammed English shirt and set out to make friends high & low. He always got to his office at 8 a.m. He traveled to villages where no American had ever been seen before, delivered speeches in good Spanish before civic groups, labor unions and schoolchildren at the rate of two a week."He has dedicated more sewers, slaughterhouses and clinics than a half-dozen politicians," wrote one admiring Salvadoran newspaperman. Once, when he turned up at a dinner celebrating the opening of a library in dusty Suchitoto (pop. 10,619), he called in the cook, asked...
...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...
Suddenly, with a roar, Aso exploded. Huge, white-hot boulders and great clouds of glowing ash erupted from the cone. Shikura and son, who had been eating lunch on the outer edge of the big crater, tried to run down the slope. So did some of the panicked schoolchildren. They should have run the other way. Stones and ash cleared the farmland on the crater floor, spattered on the rim and outer slope...
...shadow of Los Alamos, the birthplace of the atomic bomb." She was not writing to open old scars, continued Art Supervisor Susan B. Anderson, but to bring about better understanding between the two cities. One way to understanding, she thought, was through the eyes of children: why not let schoolchildren of Hiroshima and Santa Fe exchange paintings of the life around them...
Since Willys made big profits in 1952 (an estimated $24 million, cut by heavy taxes to about $6,500,000), most schoolchildren might have guessed that Willys would buy K-F, instead of the other way around. But in today's topsy-turvy, tax-ridden world, a big loss is a kind of asset because it can be "carried back" against profits over a five-year period. Thus, the driving motive in the merger is the fact that K-F can apply $31.2 million of its losses against future profits. Thus also, if Willys in 1953 should again make...