Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate listened hardest to South Dakota's Republican Chan Gurney. Sure, he agreed, it was "a stupendous pork barrel . . . but it will put pork chops and bacon and roast pork on millions of dinner tables." The Senators had added more than $101 million to the bill the House had already passed. But they had a good excuse for throwing economy out the window. The bill's whopping total-$640,253,200-was still about $25 million under the Administration's budget estimate. An overwhelming voice vote rolled the barrel to passage...
...Greatest of All . . ." In Shorewood, a suburb of Milwaukee, strapping, 17-year-old George Kalman, once a Hungarian, rolled up a sleeve, displayed the blue, tattooed numbers of the concentration camp on his arm. His hardest problem in the U.S., he said, had been "to adjust myself to being a human being again, not just a number." Sent to the U.S. by United Service for New Americans, Inc., he spent a year in the Milwaukee Jewish Children's home, now lives with foster parents. At Shorewood High School, he plays football, boxes, is an orator of parts...
This spring, the Belgian franc is (after the Swiss franc and the Portuguese escudo) Europe's hardest currency. Belgians had their worries, but they were better off than any other European people touched by the war. They had cake in the cupboard as well as hope in the future...
...Hardest hit was United Air Lines, Inc., which had a $1,086,961 profit in 1946. The rise in costs, poor weather early in the year, and the grounding of all the new DC-6s swelled United's loss to $3,747,000. American Airlines, Inc., biggest domestic carrier, was also nipped by the grounding. Though its traffic (some 1.4 billion passenger miles) and gross revenues (nearly $82 million) were the highest in company history, its losses soared to $2,962,776 (from...
Economic cooperation would be a big, perhaps the hardest, step toward Western Union. Now Europe looked to the U.S., which had been waiting for such a sign, to give them military strength and economic backing. Without these, Western Europe's best efforts would result in a grand but futile gesture...