Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dour, gangling man with a choppy gait, Colmer looks younger than his 70 years, has gradually swung from a moderate, internationalist position to that of a diehard conservative. He is generally and initially suspicious of any federal project, unless it happens to benefit his Gulf Coast constituents. He is, of course, a segregationist, but he says he has never made an "anti-Negro" speech. For 20 years he has enjoyed his power on the Rules Committee. There his vote, along with those of Chairman Howard Smith, the courtly Virginia judge, and the four Republican members, could and often did produce...
...becoming a powerful competitor in international trade. Already, the Six do 24.5% of world trade. Last year U.S. firms poured a record $300 million into branch plants inside its walls, partly to get in on the ground floor of the European market itself, but also to get the benefit of the Community's advantages in competing for export markets elsewhere. Chief advantage is wage costs, which are less than a third of the U.S.'s. Average hourly wage rates in manufacturing industries (as tabulated for 1959 by the French economic journal Etudes et Conjoncture...
Last week the smiling Eskimos of the 24th District heard good news over the short wave: Bishop Gleeson had changed his mind; Father Llorente could serve. Explained the bishop: "In this particular district, for a priest to act as a legislator can be of real benefit to the people, but in general I would call it something along the lines of a necessary evil." Said Llorente: "It's a great testimony to the strength of American culture when a Spaniard who is a Catholic priest is elected to the legislature by Eskimos...
...present, many a company benefits from the regulation that allows any profit on the sale of fully depreciated equipment to be taxed as a capital gain instead of at the higher income tax rate. A substantial majority of the firms queried by the Treasury, both big and small businesses, indicated they would readily forgo that windfall in return for more liberal depreciation allowances. They said that present tax laws assume too long a useful life for most machinery. They argued that if businessmen could set their own estimates, they would be more accurate, permit business to speed spending...
...cannot help growing at a hurry-up pace. The number of Bell System phones in use has risen from 49 million in 1956 to 60.7 million in 1960. Nearly 3,000,000 were added in 1960 alone. Furthermore, A.T. &T. is ideally suited to benefit from automation. In four years, it cut labor costs from 45? out of each income dollar to 37?. Profits are expected to reach $5.50 per share for 1960, a healthy increase from $5.22 the previous year...