Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...output from mines and factories was up to prewar level and 14% above 1947. Exports were up 20% over last year's. Electric power output and freight traffic, despite all of war's dislocations, were now far above prewar levels. Said Hoffman: "This is the time to hit hard for European recovery-time for the Europeans to take drastic and sometimes painful steps necessary for real recovery, time for the U.S. to back their efforts to the full...
Marauding Rats. The first week after Chinese New Year Canton steamed under a tropical sun. Then a biting, near freezing rain hit the city. Ricksha boys and sampan coolies sought refuge in dry alleyways where they spent hours culling their tattered palm-frond raincoats for lice. At night they slept on the sidewalks wrapped in dirty burlap bags awaking only to chase away marauding rats which feast in the swill-strewn streets after the city's human population has retired...
...inhabitants of Buenos Aires soon found out what a newspaper-less city is like. Business was hard hit. Rumors (including one that President Perón had resigned his office) replaced legitimate news...
...Santiago, in sight of Andean glaciers, the temperature hit 92° one day last week. That day, 17,540 Chileans rode trains from the capital's hot streets to beaches, lakes, mountains. In buses chartered by sports clubs, other sweating thousands rattled off for a day's dip in the chill Pacific, just two hours away at San Antonio. The luckiest Chileans, including President Gabriel González Videla, lolled in the luxury of Vina del Mar, where they improved their tans on white crescent beaches, on yacht decks, or on the balconies of flower-girt villas...
British-born Gertrude Lawrence, a hit in London in September Tide, was deeply touched at her welcome home, and wanted all her U.S. friends to know about it. Said she in a note to Variety: "Such loving devotion after so long an absence is most moving. After all, these people have experienced great suffering, privation, and tragedy together during the twelve years I have been away...