Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question most often asked of us-and the hardest to answer-is how TIME gets out each week. This process is, inevitably, an extremely complicated one. Below is the Art Department's attempt to answer the question. Probably no two people at TIME would agree with this flow chart in every detail, but I think that it does hit the high spots...
...never heard of Editor Leech-let alone been interviewed by him-until he attacked their policies and programs in print. In Pittsburgh last week, Leech defended his legwork. Said he: "I kept away from top politicians in both parties...[They] only give you the official party line...I tried hardest to see plain people, to drop into pubs and strike up conversations, to sit on benches in Hyde Park...I don't think there is any serious charge in my whole series that hasn't been printed in British newspapers and magazines...Nobody was more surprised than...
...Hardest hit were the networks, which have poured the most money into TV and reaped the least profit. This year CBS has made $500,000 less than it did in the first half of 1948. Du Mont's books have a reddish tinge and ABC, which can least afford it, is losing most of all. NBC does not release a balance sheet, but it is no exception. Of 76 TV stations in the U.S., only six claimed to be breaking even or making money. Manhattan's WPIX, owned by the New York Daily News, dropped...
...Lattre was also one of the army's hardest taskmasters. A colonel who served on his staff tells a story: "One night the general returned from a staff meeting to divisional headquarters with a strategic problem. He called me in with two other officers about dinnertime, asked our views on the problem, then told us to go back and put our ideas on paper. That took us till 3 in the morning. He read all the papers, said, 'Excellent, excellent,' then talked for 30 minutes tearing them to bits. Then he divided the problem into three parts...
Hugo Black, appointed twelve years ago in the midst of outraged objections when Black, an ex-police judge, later a U.S. Senator, had to admit that once he had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama; now rated as one of the best-read, hardest working, most learned justices on the court...