Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...argument was that with the Government shelling out 6½? of the 30? per Ib. paid by the mills, textile prices would fall and the consumer would benefit. This entirely ignored the fact that the consumer is also a taxpayer-and anyway, it hasn't worked out. So far, the textile industry has received a mouth-watering $329 million in subsidies; payments have even gone to prisons whose convicts work at weaving. Textile industry profits have soared to their highest level since Korea. But there has been no dramatic drop in wholesale or retail textile prices. For example...
Unbeknownst to anybody, Skipper Long had steered Ondine 250 miles out to sea-maintaining radio silence. "We steered more for speed than for course," he said, "even if it took us farther out." In midocean, Ondine met no frustrating countercurrents and got the benefit of fresh winds. Day after day, she boomed along at a fantastic average speed of 7½ knots. Grim and tense, Long took at least ten sightings a day, sent deck hands scurrying to change sails as often as every 20 minutes...
Sohn claimed that the forfeiture clause is rarely invoked, and described his offer as "reasonable and rational." "If charter flights are for the benefit of the students, this benefits the students completely," he said...
Like the printers' boss, Gaherin came up the hard way, without benefit of a college education. To his new assignment in New York, he brings 20 years of experience in railroad labor relations, most recently as chairman of the labor-relations committee of the East ern Railroad Presidents Conference. In that capacity, Gaherin has argued management's side against the railroad brotherhoods, or unions, many of whom are at least as stubborn as Powers...
...more common duodenal ulcers, and it has some unwanted side effects on gastric ulcer patients; about 20% suffered from water retention, and others suffered from a rise in blood pressure. Both groups needed a second drug to control these symptoms. If a gastric "ulcer" patient gets no benefit from the licorice medicine, says Dr. Doll, this may be a desirable early warning that he should have surgery...