Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MARTHA WILSON...
...famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team, was killed when he flung himself on a German hand grenade as it rolled toward two of his comrades. The President awarded him the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously. Last week, in a ceremony at the Brooklyn Army Base, the Army transport Wilson Victory was renamed the Private Sadao S. Munemori in his honor, and in honor of all Nisei who had died in the service of the U.S. Said his brother: "Sadao told my mother that he would come home. But he said that the important thing was his duty to his country...
...House of Commons last week up rose Harold Wilson, chubby President of Britain's Board of Trade. Said he: "The negotiations between His Majesty's Government and the representatives of the American motion picture industry have resulted in an agreement." This was good news to Hollywood, which had in part blamed the 75% British tax on U.S. film profits for inciting to panic (TIME...
Last week, as they unfolded the terms of their agreement, Johnston and Wilson beamed fondly at one another. Said Wilson admiringly: "Johnston was a tougher negotiator than the Russians." Said Johnston of Socialist Wilson: "Were he in America, he would have made a great capitalist." Both parties to the deal stood to gain by it, and neither had anything to lose. In Hollywood, there were a few who called it a good deal only by comparison with the "confiscatory" 75% tax. Producer-Director Sam Wood spoke for the optimists: "Removal of the tax gives the green light on the greatest...
Hollywood can also take out as many dollars, above the $17 million limit, as British films earn in the U.S. (in 1947 they earned $4 million). But even here Wilson had won a canny advantage. U.S. producer-exhibitors for the first time would have an interest in promoting British films in the U.S., because that would help them get more dollars out of England...