Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rampant rivers tossed off their bridges, gulped in railway roadbeds, swamped highways, transportation throughout the region was practically at a standstill. Railroads canceled many a train, sent others chugging cautiously over competitors' tracks. Hardest hit was the Pennsylvania, whose four-track main line cuts through the heart of the Alleghenies. Pennsylvania canceled all service on its own tracks west of Lancaster, Pa. The last break, near Altoona, Pa., was not repaired and through service resumed until three days later. B. & O. stopped all trains west of Washington...
...newspapers in the flood's path, Pittsburgh's were hardest hit. When telegraphic facilities failed, Hearstmen on the Sun-Telegraph managed to get a long distance connection with the New York American, had Arthur Brisbane's column "Today" dictated over the wire. In it Mr. Brisbane announced that "Johnstown, Pa. has its second important flood," went on to wonder "whether engineers could not have arranged to let the second flood run around the city instead of through...
...costs, the railroads are still about $1,000,000,000 under prosperity levels. And bonds clamor for interest in even the worst of times. The fixed charges, mostly bond interest, of U. S. railroads are still in the neighborhood of $700,000,000 a year. This is the hardest nut for railroaders to crack...
...hardest fought individual struggle of the game will undoubtedly be between Bill Gray and Larry Kelley, pitted opposite each other at the center posts. Gray will get the tip-offs, but there will be a strong fight for scoring honors with Kelley ceded a slight edge...
Since 1931, however, the hardest anti-Roosevelt whisper to down has been the one about his health. One day last April an Associated Press photographer snapped the President at a baseball game yelling and popping peanuts into his mouth. Worse was a photograph he took in which a trick of light had made the President look ghastly pale. Its publication brought the White House a storm of anxious letters inquiring about the President's health. Distraught, Secretary Early declared a ban on all candid cameras around the White House...