Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wouldn't. He was one of hundreds of top executives who had helped take over the boards when 340,000 National Federation of Telephone Workers walked out a month ago. But along with Bell's dial system and the thousands of nonstriking supervisors (who probably would benefit), his ability to keep the lines open was the reason N.F.T.W. was coming back to work this week-beaten, broke and dispirited...
Charles Chaplin's "personality" offended the Independent Theater Owners of Ohio. The group, owners of 325 movie houses, urged all other U.S. theater owners to boycott Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux, and not waste "valuable screen time ... to his financial benefit...
Caen's Chronicle column got off to a slow start, for conservative San Franciscans whose names were newsworthy didn't like to make Caen's kind of news. Without benefit of the pressagents who save legwork for Hollywood and Manhattan gossips, Caen created a cafe society of his own. He haunted nightspots, cocktail parties and theater openings, built an army of volunteer tipsters. Unlike most of his Broadway rivals, Columnist Caen rarely had anything malicious to say about anybody...
Before the war, Dudley had a semblance of a library, but it was removed to Widener during the lean years when the number of commutes, along with total enrollment, was at a low ebb. Failure to rebuild this collection has meant that Dudley's patrons receive less benefit than any other group from the University's matches library facilities. The inequality may be removed when the Lamont undergraduate library is completed at some unknown future date. Meanwhile, provision should be made so that commuters--numbering considerably more than the membership of the average House--do not continue to be poor...
Featuring the Band and the well-known amateur choir from the Perkins Institute for the Blind, the free concert is the first of a series of three benefit appearances planned by the local music-makers for the coming two weeks...