Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poland, one of the hardest hit by disease, there were severe typhoid and typhus outbreaks, but by improving sanitation and shipping in enough DDT to delouse every inhabitant, UNRRA stopped both. In 1946, Poland had only 3,500 typhus cases...
...sale for $2,100. In Los Angeles, Kelley Kar Co., which boasts that it is the biggest used-car dealer in the world, cut prices $200 to $500 a car. In Cleveland, prices were off about 20% and dealers were referring to any 1942 model as "a white elephant." Hardest hit were 1946 models. A few weeks ago they were selling from $500 to $2,000 above new car prices. By last week the markups had dropped to $100 to $200-and the cars were moving off the lots slowly...
...badly frightened rabbit. There was much to be frightened about. Retail fur prices were being cut generally from 25 to 50%. An auction of 25,000 ranch-raised mink brought prices 30% below those of last December, and only 60% of the pelts were sold. Prices of fox, hardest hit of furs, dropped so much at auctions that fox farmers were holding their pelts off the market...
...simple when done, but obviously took a lot of thinking. "Briefly," he explains in his book, "the designer experiences, perceives, analyzes, organizes, symbolizes, synthesizes." Rand is against "using Picasso to sell underwear," believes that "to design a liquor ad you should know what it is to feel convivial." The hardest part of his work is to find the symbol which will differentiate one brand of liquor, cosmetics, or fabrics from all the rest. (Examples: Rand's Coronet Brandy waiter, whose head is shaped like a brandy glass, his Stafford Fabrics' patchwork horse...
...Hardest hit by the Natural Sciences slump, Biology and Chemistry both lost one-third of their 1945 percentage total, and minor decreases were registered throughout the area...