Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very clever job in leaning over backward so as not to give De Sapio the benefit of any doubt...
Husky Cinemale Kirk (Ulysses) Douglas, luxuriantly equipped to play his second bearded film role in a row (as tortured Dutch Artist Vincent Van Gogh), was the hairy centerpiece of a trio of singers while rehearsing before a polio benefit on the terrace of Monte Carlo's Summer Sporting Club. His deep voice blended commendably with the husky baritone of Grandma Marlene Dietrich and the lilting tremolo of Italian Cinemactress Gina (The Wayward Wife) Lollobrigida...
...still in business. The government even granted the firm a license to import 4,000 metric tons of frijoles (black beans), now selling at scarcity prices in Guatemala, and 100,000 sacks of cement, also in short supply. Plenty of Guatemalans were still willing to give Castillo Armas the benefit of the doubt, but they were waiting and hoping for a somewhat better explanation of why the President had allowed himself to be backed into such an embarrassing position...
Though the VIPs get the headlines, the hospitals really exist for the benefit of their workaday patients: servicemen, who pay nothing, and their dependents, who pay $1.75 a day. Between them, the hospitals care for 32,000 bed patients a year-some flown in from ships of the Navy, Army posts and Air Force bases scattered around the world. Each general hospital is the hub of a great medical center, designed for teaching and research as well as patient-care. Walter Reed and Bethesda are constantly and quietly pioneering along many medical lines...
...take no cut if prices go down. It agreed to a new life-insurance plan equal to twice the amount of each worker's annual pay, and to three days' leave with pay in case of death in a worker's family. Another benefit: a new form of "catastrophe" medical insurance to cover long illnesses, which will provide as much as $15,000 to care for a disabled worker...