Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Under the new rules, the same outcome would result in a 15½-15½ vote standoff, effectively neutralizing the Wisconsin delegation to the national convention. Said State Chairman Patrick J. Lucey, a not-so-secret Kennedy supporter: "The change can only be interpreted as an attempt to benefit the candidate of those proposing the formula." Sponsor of the new rules: Committeeman Sam Rizzo, ex-United Auto Workers official and chairman of Humphrey's Wisconsin campaign...
...figure on an automatic advantage with the 1,200,000 fellow Roman Catholics who make up 30% of the total population. Congregationalist Humphrey expects an automatic advantage with the 1,500,000 Protestants, especially the 850,000 members of the Lutheran synods; on the other hand, he hopes to benefit from extensive campaigning by his fellow Minnesota Senator, Eugene McCarthy, a Roman Catholic. The Catholics of various national origins (Polish, Italian, German, Irish) are concentrated in the populous industrial areas, such as Milwaukee and La Crosse...
Even though Congress threatens to slash Cuba's sugar quota in reprisal for Fidel Castro's seizure of U.S. property, Hawaii is in no position to step up its production to benefit. So, last week, Hawaii's leading sugar company, American Factors, Ltd., announced a plan that it hopes will help it break out of its box. It set up a new organization called Sugar International* to equip other countries with a Hawaiian-style sugar industry...
...dams and a diversion canal). Concerning the project's more ambitious second and third stages (building the nearly three-mile-long, half-mile-thick dam itself and its power plants), Public Works Minister Mousa Arafa says: "As a neutral country, we will take the offer most to our benefit." Despite the Russians' head start, Japan, Italy, Britain, Austria and West Germany are running hard for second-stage contracts. This month West Germany's Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard is due in Cairo to offer a $48 million credit to start some second-stage work without waiting four years...
...common practice today, particularly in the field of transportation. Billions have been spent in the construction of airports for the use of the airlines. This is a subsidy. Hundreds of millions have been spent to maintain the merchant fleet, privately owned. This is a subsidy. For the benefit of the automobile and truck user, $93 billion has been spent on the highways, of which only $45 billion has come back in user charges. The balance is subsidy...