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...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...
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...
Gradually, by outliving other Union veterans, Albert became a celebrated man in Duluth, where he had settled down. Harry Truman sent him a telegram on his 100th birthday in 1947. Duluth schoolchildren collected 27,652 pennies, and had his portrait painted in the uniform of the Grand Army of the Republic...
...Elementary schoolchildren: Tom Corbett, My Friend Irma, Red Skelton, Roy Rogers, Stu Erwin...
...Chicago last week, Northwestern University's Professor Paul Witty released his third annual report on the TV reactions of schoolchildren, parents and teachers. About the only thing they all agreed on was I Love Lucy-easily the most popular show among elementary moppets, teen-agers and parents. Even teachers, who placed news shows first, ranked Lucy as a popular fifth preference...