World War II had a dramatic impact on Texas, as federal money poured in to build military bases, munitions factories, POW detention camps and Army hospitals; 750,000 young men left for service; the cities exploded with new industry; the colleges took on new roles; and hundreds of thousands of poor farmers left for much better paying war jobs, never to return to agriculture.
Recipients kept on working for the most part, and the payments left them much better off than they would have been otherwise.
("I shall tell your friend, Colonel Edmondstone," Hume's doctor said to him one day, "that I left you much better, and in a fair way of recovery".
I took some lumps, and it wasn't much fun at the time, but it has left me much better prepared to go head-to-head against President Obama and his billion-dollar campaign chest".
They will leave you much better informed about the state of climate science than anything in the opinion pages of our country's newspaper of record, at least today.
Nor did the visitors' first impressions of the president leave them much better disposed.
Such firms, observers note, have intimate knowledge of their customers and have earned their trust, leaving them much better placed to play the role of Big Mother.
He said they would leave Liverpool much better-placed to compete with such clubs as Manchester City and Chelsea: "They are operating under the current rules.
Commanding Officer, Lt Col Will Davies said the regiment will leave behind a "much better place" than they found.
Even though by the end of his second term the dotcom bubble had burst, Clinton left the country much better off than he found it.
