Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eleven industries, employing in 1947 about 7% of Minnesota's industrial labor, would be hurt by tariff reduction, the committee decided. Only three of the smallest of these would suffer serious damage. Some of the state's leather glove and belt manufacturers would be hard hit by foreign competition, and imports of cheap foreign china could cripple the pro duction of pottery, one of the principal industries of Red Wing...
...Hardest hit of all would be Minnesota's four beet sugar refineries; unrestricted ad mission of Cuban sugar would wipe out the uneconomic growth of sugar beets by Minnesota farmers...
...report conceded that freer would probably hit Minnesota harder than it would manufacturers...
Switches & Splits. The confessions of truckling cowardice that were implicit in the new Khrushchev-Molotov-Bulganin line might do for the inner Kremlin gang. But it was not so easy for Communist leaders outside Russia to explain their own participation in the great deceit. The debunking of Stalin hit world Communists with a deeper shock than anything since Stalin's 1939 pact with Hitler. In what may be the first of many satellite reverberations, the boss of Hungary's Communist Party has admitted that his regime sent five top Reds wrongly to death in 1949 (see below...
Though Lucy makes no visible mark on any literary target, it has already hit the bull's-eye of high finance. The Hollywood team of Hecht-Lancaster has paid Author Shaw the record prepublication sum of $400,000 for the film rights to his novel with a possible $350,000 more. His publishers are running off a fat initial printing of 50,000 copies, and Lucy seems assured of elbowing her way into top company on current bestseller lists...