Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...balm to three New Dealers-Robert Morss Lovett, Goodwin B. Watson, and William E. Dodd-whose salaries had been withheld in 1943 by Congress merely because they had been dubbed "radical" by the Dies Committee. The Court called Congress' action a "bill of attainder"-and gave Congress the hardest rap in more than a decade...
...into red. Libby-Owens-Ford Glass Co. lost $450,445 v. a net profit of $1,903,464 last year. Nash-Kelvinator, with a loss of $1,152,775 compared to last year's $510,258 profit, showed what suppliers' strikes had done to the auto industry. Hardest hit of all was General Electric. President Charles E. Wilson gave out the black-bordered facts: a loss of $13,701,580, first deficit since 1922, v. last year's net profit...
...Hardest-hit province was Quebec, with 75,000 jobless. Next was Ontario with...
...main prerequisite for a degree since the inception of the tutorial system. A return to the superficiality which was the bane of the free elective system is foreshadowed in the scaling down of requirements for both the regular and honors degree in exactly those departments where tutorial has been hardest hit. The English department now requires of its non-honors men only that they take a fair distribution of courses within the field. In the recent publication of the Biology department's requirements, the general examination is conspicuous by its absence. Coincidence? With a vengeance...
Despite this early sun, there were clouds on the horizon. Detroit's automakers, hardest hit by reconversion and strikes, have yet to tell what they made last year. Nevertheless, industry is well heeled to stand any temporary losses. The Securities & Exchange Commission reported that last September the working capital of U.S. industry stood at a new high of 50.9 billion. More than half was in actual cash...