Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Death in the Cellar. Down in a cellar on a clean, whitewashed wall were many hooks jutting out near the low ceiling. For the benefit of visitors a dummy had been strung up there, its stuffed toes just touching the floor. Before we came men were strung up similarly, pulled up till they choked. It took them a long time before they gave up the instinctive fight for breath, and there are scratches on the walls where they clawed vainly for support. Before they left the SS men had tried to eradicate these marks with paint and had also pulled...
...Roosevelt, as guest of honor, arrived at the Sulgrave Club tea for the benefit of Washington's children's clinics "with a very light heart." She had heard from Warm Springs that the President had eaten a good breakfast and was feeling fine. The anxiety which she had borne so long was eased a little that afternoon...
...total loans were not large. But there was an indirect benefit evident in increased loans by other banks: they have had to shed some of their timidity rather than lose business...
...Gaulle's ministers began to blueprint a grand United States of France, girdling the globe and revolutionary in its treatment of colonials. Within the Union they plan a wide measure of economic and political decentralization, a great development of education and sanitation, an exploitation of resources for the benefit of the inhabitants, a rapid training of colonials in democratic administration...
...industry, the price may be high. The F.A.A., which has gone right on organizing without benefit of NLRB, now claims 36,000 members. With NLRB help, it now hopes to organize all supervisory employes in U.S. industry-unless NLRB changes its mind again...