Word: crested
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cancerous Practice. But around the nation, there are signs that the flood of stamps has reached its crest and is beginning to ebb. Biggest area of discontent is among filling-station operators. Unlike most retailers, who can pass the stamps' cost on to the consumer in higher prices, gas stations have a price-determined product and a low profit margin. For them, the stamp craze has become a nightmare...
...specialist in advertising low-priced packaged goods to a general-purpose agency by lining up such accounts as Western Union and Mutual of New York. Lusk, a Connecticut machinist's son who worked his way through Yale ('23), rose to the top of B. & B. on the crest of a vastly successful 1946 advertising campaign for Procter & Gamble's Tide-for which he coined the slogan "Tide's In, Dirt's Out." (Early this year, with competing detergents cutting deeply into Tide's share of the market, P. & G. switched...
...Weather Bureau issued flood warnings for the Charles River yesterday afternoon, but indicates that there is now no danger in the Basin. However, the upper river is expected to crest at four feet today and over six feet on Thursday, flooding lowlands and cellars in the Dedham and Dover vicinity...
...irony that, as he nears the end of his political life (Byrd says nothing about the subject, but friends give odds that he will not run for re-election in 1964), Harry Byrd has arrived at a crest of effective power and influence. He has, in fact, become a symbol of the Capitol Hill rebellion against the young activist who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...
Jazzed Up Dissonance. Stan Kenton's crew, which last week was midway through a nine-month tour, is riding the crest of a post-rock 'n' roll revival of interest in bands. The revival has not yet risen to the peak of the '30s when the bands roamed the countryside in gaudy caravans, carrying a whiff of the wide world with them. But, although there are fewer bands today, the top ones are making bigger money and getting more bookings. If they wanted to, such men as Ray Anthony, Harry James, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman...