Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hardest hit by the calamity were people who, finding their taps supplied only the merest trickle, left the faucet open only to be inundated when Boston water was diverted into Cambridge. Or maybe it was the people who lived downstairs from them...
Detroit's automakers were the hardest hit. Last week, Chevrolet production dropped from 12,347 to 7,792. Briggs Manufacturing Co., which makes bodies for Chrysler and Packard, laid off 7,000 workers, cut schedules in half. Result: Chrysler cut its daily production from 3,600 to 2,775 cars, is expected to lay off 18,000 workers. Ford production too began to slip...
...routine called Puttin' on the Ritz, one dazzling scene in Blue Skies where trick photography fills the screen with a full chorus of fast-stepping Astaires, will not dim his reputation as a hell of a dancer. The hardest of four numbers he designed for the picture, it took him five weeks of what he calls "backbreaking physical work...
...diggers probed the relics left by this simple people, they found unsimple things. The La Ventas were remarkable artists, who carved hardest jade into human figurines, ornamented ax heads, beads, earplugs, pendants. They were excellent potters, too. Example: a baked clay whistle in the form of a realistic bird, which gives the cry of the bird it represents...
Last to drop department-store advertising was the Daily News, which had stored huge reserves of paper and early in the strike had boasted that it was doing fine.*Hardest hit was the tabloid Mirror, which shrank to a skinny eight pages but clung stubbornly to Winchell, Pearson and two pages of comics, along with a nubbin of news. (And moved a nightclub comedian to crack: "I'm so weak I can't even lift a copy of today's Mirror V) Whistling shrilly to keep up its courage, the starveling Mirror ran a daily silver-lining...