Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this situation President Crowley sees benefit to the railroads. The public is habituated by motor cars to traveling. What railroads lose from short-haul traffic, they gain in the long haul. The Twentieth Century Limited yearly carried as many passengers as are booked first class on all the trans-atlantic steamers, and runs 2,000 sections a year...
...keepers and other "ladies come down in the world" twittered approvingly last week over a copy of the Times in which the will of Samuel William Farmer, rich Wilshire squire, was published. His entire estate amounting to ?400,000 ($1,945,000) was bequeather "to be used for the benefit of upper middle and professional class persons of both sexes who through ill health or advancing years are unable to earn a living...
...gratifying to witness such an academic swarming. No one can see in this mass phenomenon anything but a good omen, even if many individuals would have greater benefit from the disciplines of the every-day world. It is only, however, when those without serious intellectual purpose dominate the mass that the gravity of numbers becomes something other than a benign promise. It is especially of interest to notice in the announcements of the leading universities this year the increasing exchange of teachers with universities in other parts of the world. If this could take place to some considerable extent among...
Significance. The apparent "fairness" of Mr. Churchill's proposal, coming as it did from the principal die-hard Tory in the Cabinet, was shrewdly calculated to benefit the Conservative Party at the next election. Aside from its political aspects, the plan has the advantage of opening an entirely new avenue of escape from the coal dilemma down which both miners and owners can travel without loss of amour-propre...
...beneficiaries of the tariff prove the iniquitous character of the policy. 4) Republicans defeated farm relief in the 69th session. 5) Democrats favor "an honest trade law that will stimulate business by fair competition and produce revenue to the government instead of "a high protective tariff for the benefit of special interests...