MILLIONAIRE'S GIFT
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Probably Biggest Benefaction Ever Given in U.S. ALL FOR PHILANTR0PHY
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(Eeceived 10, 1|.15 a.m.) NEW YOEK, April 9. Mr. George Ball, a millionaire fruitjar manufacturer, has given his common stock holdings in the Mi.d-American Corporation, the holding company for Mr. Van Sweringen's 2,000,000,000 dollar xailways "empire," to a religious, charitable and educational foundation hearing his own and his wife's name. This ie expected to prove one of the greatest philanthropic donations eve«given in America.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 71, 10 April 1937, Page 5
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81MILLIONAIRE'S GIFT Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 71, 10 April 1937, Page 5
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