Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...right flank, replacing the fearfully mauled U.S. 2nd Division. Caught on the shoulder of the great Communist breakthrough, the 2nd would have to be reconstituted before it could fight again. It had lost a third of its combat strength in killed, wounded and missing; its 9th Regiment, first and hardest hit in the Red onslaught, was almost completely destroyed. The division's 237 officer casualties included five doctors and two chaplains...
Though weiland ahs called the forward situation "flexible," his offense is pretty well set. Joe Kittredge centers the first attack, with Captain Lew Preston and Hal Marshall at left and right wings. Kittredge, who has one of the hardest shots on the team, has looked especially good in practies...
...invaded Korea primarily to safeguard the North Korean dams which generate hydroelectric power used by Manchurian industry and furnish light to the Manchurian industrial center of Mukden, the Russian naval base at Port Arthur and Dairen. The British view was strengthened by the fact that Chinese troops had struck hardest in the area south of the Yalu River's 480-ft. Suiho Dam, which has a capacity of 700,000 kw., two-thirds as much as massive Hoover Dam. But supporters of the British view did not explain how Communist China, whose armed forces consist almost entirely of ground...
Other businessmen, cheered by the election results, were also taking up arms. Television Manufacturer Allen B. Du-Mont gathered representatives of 62 "growth" companies whose profits have doubled between 1946 and 1949, hence would be hardest hit by any tax which regards recent profits as "excessive." Du-Mont's group organized the National Conference of Growth Companies, plugged for a flat levy on earnings instead of an excess profits tax. Barring this, they wanted a tax base which would not penalize their sudden growth...
Whittemore's hardest problem was to find the best possible instruments with which to accomplish this job, never before attempted. He decided that dental tools best serve the purpose. His aim was to preserve the mosaics as found rather than to restore them...