Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week got a prime-and lately rare-example of how a free market can work to the benefit of consumers. The Administration, which has been talking of curbing such freedom, also benefited; it found that there may be more grain available than it had counted...
...entrance by Korda, the Hungarian-born producer who first proved to Britain that it could compete with Hollywood, was well planned. He had tested the market a month ago with the first postwar production of his new company, an unpretentious thriller called A Man About the House, launched without benefit of the Korda name. It was grossing as much as first-run U.S. pictures, Korda said...
...before, but that was forced. This time it is voluntary, and the people who should know say that it will reduce the fat prices we have to pay now. . . . What in hell is wrong with our people that they won't cooperate, when it is to their own benefit...
...benefit of all concerned, some readers have even tried to share TIME with their enemies. In this connection, I am thinking particularly of the war years and of an elderly gentleman named Thorwald Gustaffsen, a citizen of Stockholm, who, from 1936 until the war closed in on him in 1942, regularly sent us his Christmas gift order. It was always addressed to the same three people because, as he put it: "They need a clear, true, balanced story of the news more than any other three men in the world." The three were the late Adolf Hitler, the late Benito...
...Council and School Board have been campaigned on the basis of individual preference rather than party affiliation. With each candidate, excepting those men endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association, conducting his own campaign, there has been no concerted effort to overcome voter inertia or crystallize important issues for the benefit of the electorate. The race for ballots seems to be diffused towards class bigotry and vicious recrimination while the vital questions remain securely muzzled...