Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dutifully getting Salk shots early and often. The people at the bottom of the economic ladder have learned enough about health protection to get their babies up out of the yard filth, but not enough to have their youngsters vaccinated. As a result, paralytic polio (2,499) struck hardest at children from low-income groups...
...career. Venezuela is the home of Creole Petroleum Corp., most profitable affiliate of the Rockefeller-founded Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), and he once served on Creole's board. But Venezuelans rarely think of him as an oilman; instead, he is the single man who has striven hardest to raise the country's standard of living...
Said Research Director Edmund Mennis of Philadelphia's Wellington Fund: "The industries hardest hit by the 1958 recession (autos, textiles, steels, chemicals, metals, machinery and rubber) are expected to have the sharpest recovery...
...soft metal. When the metal hardens, it is used as an electrode, i.e., conducts the electric current. When the electrode is placed close to a piece of metal and the current applied, the metal is vaporized to the same shape as the electrode pattern. With this process the hardest metals have been shaped as easily as cast iron, and the machines are automatic, e.g., one ran unattended for 72 hours while it shaped a high-speed rotor for the Argonne atomic laboratory...
...automakers, hardest hit by the recession, last week gave out the bad news for the third quarter. Ford reported a loss of $21.6 million, bringing the deficit for nine months to $16.2 million, v. $229.5 million profit in the same period last year. Chrysler's ink was even redder: its third-quarter loss of $20-million pushed the loss for nine months to a total of $45.2 million, v. a $103.6 million profit in 1957. Studebaker-Packard, which lost $12.4 million in the first nine months of 1957, lost $22.5 million through this September...