Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three mufti-clad Viet Minh officers and five French Union officers, also in civilian clothes, walked into the room at a prearranged time and sat down at two widely spaced tables. Their purpose was to map the areas controlled by the opposing forces, and settle areas for regroupment. Without benefit of chairman, they began a hesitant discussion of procedure. Though everybody understood French, the Viet Minh insisted that they would talk only Tonkinese and that all speeches must be translated. After four sessions, the big military maps were still folded and unmarked...
...will provide free factual news to editors, public officials, school administrators, etc., describing the shift from segregated to nonsegregated schools. Said Virginius Dabney, editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and chairman of the Southern Education Reporting Service: "School administrators . . . in each of the 17 states affected will stand to benefit by the experience of [other] school administrators [reported] on a strictly factual, non-partisan basis...
Piggybackers argue that everyone-shippers, truckers and railroaders-should benefit. In many cases, piggybacking should not take business away from the truckers. The railroads will simply charge them a fee for handling the long-haul shipments that wear out truckers' equipment and boost their costs. For their part, the railroads will get some much-needed extra revenue. Says Erie's Traffic Vice President Harry W. Von Willer: "Trucks take only the kind of business they want. They skim off the cream. We can't live on milk. We want cream." The New York Central alone figures that...
...truckers will benefit in several ways. Their insurance and labor costs will go down, since the driver will not be needed on the long railroad hauls, and they will not be hampered by loading laws that differ from state to state. A trucker now operating over the roads between New York and Chicago, for example, must underload his trailer in order to meet the requirements of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Shippers may also profit by lower rates. The cost of shipping by piggyback is estimated at 20? per trailer mile v. about 24? over the road. Furthermore, piggybacking combines the advantages...
...short, both the truckers and railroaders now have the opportunity of forging a stronger transport system to the benefit of all. They can thus affirm a fact that has long been obvious to shippers: they are better off as partners than as opponents...