Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Economist Sir Arthur Salter and other free-trade advocates pointed out that after Beaverbrook & Co., who shouted loudest for a tight, imperial trade system, were repudiated in the last elections, the new Government might have worked for a free trade world. But when the U.S. insisted on condemning imperial preference in 'the loan agreements, preference suddenly seemed dear to Britons...
...Kuester is a corn, oats and hog farmer, and has been for 42 years. These days, while the battle for food thunders loudest on the wheat sector, he fights on his own position in the line, confident in his farmer's knowledge that the battle must be fought on many fields, with many crops. The field that Gus Kuester and his slight, tough-fibered son Dale, 28, hold against hunger is 240 acres of fat, black Iowa earth. Their citadels are two farmhouses and their outworks-barns, farrowing sheds, chicken houses and consumptively coughing windmills...
...Shirley-Savoy Hotel ballroom, Barbara & friends watched with a professional air as sister delegates demonstrated good manners. Everyone enjoyed most the skits showing horrible examples (see cut). The skit which got the loudest applause: "Monopolizing the Telephone while the Rest of the Family Wait...
...Jimmy Wechsler, to move three of his staff to Manhattan. Rather than do it, Wechsler resigned, and Ingersoll fired the three. One of them was Milton Murray, president of the American Newspaper Guild, whose Washington and New York chapters promptly took up their cudgels against the editor of the loudest organ of the leftist press...
Amid all this bustle, it remained for a 23-year-old U.S. musicomedy to attract, fortnight ago, the season's glossiest first-night audience and its loudest cheers. Tout Paris-Marlene Dietrich, Mistinguett, Jean Gabin, Lucien Lelong, many another-swarmed to No, No, Nanette, stayed on for 18 curtain calls...