Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relish, Truman denounced the Eisenhower Administration and all its works. "There are plenty of signs," said he, "of a return of that old philosophy that the object of government is to help big business . . . This Administration has raised interest rates all across the board. That may be to the benefit of the moneylenders, but it surely does hurt the rest of the people . . . Our great public-housing program, which was helping to clear America's slums, has been condemned to death. Funds for enforcement of the minimum-wage law, which protects the lowest-paid of our workers, have been...
AUTOMOBILE owners will benefit from the rate war beginning among auto liability insurers. Irked at the big inroads made in their business by such rate-cutting independents as the Allstate Insurance Co. and the Farm Bureau Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. which offer discounts up to 20% on some risks, two big industry groups are ready to cut rates themselves. The plan, already approved by the National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters and the Mutual Insurance Rating Bureau, which together represent more than 200 mutual and stock companies, calls for reclassification of drivers so that the safer ones will save...
...hopeful patients keep the cash registers ringing in motels, hotels, restaurants, drugstores and movie houses. Mrs. Jessel herself is the proprietor of 13 cabins where patients who need more than one treatment can put up for $35 a month. District doctors acknowledge that some patients may receive "psychological benefit"; beyond that they can only fume at the danger that ill people who need proper medical treatment may be persuaded, by a visit to Susie's, that they do not need...
...common to all mankind." In The Brushwood Boy, he built a boy-meets-girl idyll around the notion that dreams may be shared though the dreamers be continents apart. In Love-o'-Women and On Greenhow Hill, he managed to rate love higher than etiquette; and in Without Benefit of Clergy he actually sang a tender hymn to miscegenation...
...Communists were determined to get the maximum benefit to themselves-that is, the maximum damage to France -out of the trouble that others had started. At week's end they were calling out industrial workers in the Marseille area and planning parades for this week (probably with violence) in celebration of the ninth anniversary of France's liberation from the Germans...