Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Walter S. Johnson (1884–1978) was a notable businessman and philanthropistin San Francisco, California. He was one of the founders of theAmerican Forest Products Corporation, a Fortune 500 company in the1950s and 1960s, and of Friden, Inc., the Friden Calculating MachineCompany, which developed and sold electro-mechanical numerators and officeequipment, predecessors of today's computerized counterparts. As aphilanthropist, Walter S. Johnson is most famous for his 1959 contributionto the preservation of the Palace of Fine Arts, an act that ensured theendurance of the iconic San Francisco landmark.. }
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- Walter_S._Johnson abstract "Walter S. Johnson (1884–1978) was a notable businessman and philanthropistin San Francisco, California. He was one of the founders of theAmerican Forest Products Corporation, a Fortune 500 company in the1950s and 1960s, and of Friden, Inc., the Friden Calculating MachineCompany, which developed and sold electro-mechanical numerators and officeequipment, predecessors of today's computerized counterparts. As aphilanthropist, Walter S. Johnson is most famous for his 1959 contributionto the preservation of the Palace of Fine Arts, an act that ensured theendurance of the iconic San Francisco landmark.".