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As Hershey Mulls Bid for Cadbury, School Trust an Issue

Dec. 15, 2009
Behind Hershey's possible bid for Cadbury is a school for the poor with a $6 billion endowment and a hunger for rich dividends
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Veterans etch the names of their friends inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War on May 26, 2012 in Washington, DC. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. UPI/Pat Benic