Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against Walter George's oratory, his old friend, Virginia's Harry Byrd, presented statistical arguments; e.g., the new disability benefits would cost $850 million the first year. But the Senate had in mind another set of statistics: the votes of 250,000 disabled persons and 800,000 women (to say nothing of wage-earning relatives) who would benefit by the new program. The Senate approved the Democratic amendments for the disabled (47 to 45) and for the ladies (86 to 7). Final vote on the bill: 90 to 0. Confronted by such unanimity, President Eisenhower would think twice...
...days Hodge held firm, resisted Republican Governor William Stratton's efforts to get him to resign, and kept his mouth shut. Then Southmoor Bank's President Edward H. Hintz, who had suddenly quit his job, pointed his finger directly at his longtime crony, Hodge, for the benefit of the Chicago Tribune...
...done so without the benefit of personal notoriety. The son of a vaudeville conductor, Legrand was packed off to the Paris Conservatory at ten. There he studied to become a serious composer, took to accompanying and arranging for popular singers to help pay his way. As the demand for his arranging talents grew, he formed his own combo (tuba, banjo, drums and piano), which he expands to a full orchestra as the need arises. He scored his first big recording success in 1954, when Columbia commissioned him to arrange and do an orchestral recording of an album of schmalzy favorites...
Group 20's superb translation of Miller's intent should encourage him to continue shunning the tested formula in favor of honest experimentation, from which we all can learn and benefit...
Instead, he and his planners reckoned that the death of American would benefit the company's two other magazines−which are in even worse financial trouble. "The odd thing," said Smith, "is that the least loser turned out to be the best one to pick to put out of business." Collier's (circ. 3,772,079) lost $7.5 million in 1953, $4.5 million in 1954 and $1.5 million last year, and Smith expects losses to be no lower in 1956. Woman's Home Companion (circ. 4,117,734), which was making a profit until...