Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...larger number-those who are bound for the Orient-will get U.S. furloughs, unless military necessity interferes. Some will go into brief retraining. The Army hopes to move 500,000 men to the U.S. in the peak month (August...
...Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. yard on the muddy "Singing River" at Pascagoula, Miss., where 11,000 men & women worked at 1943's hectic peak, only 8,000 worked this week. Within a year the last of the 73 big C-3 freighters for the United States Maritime Commission, and the special type craft for the Navy would be ready for delivery, and Ingalls' war work would be near its end. All this suited Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. just fine...
...Friday morning, stocks slipped. Then the utility stocks, hardest hit of all by New Deal reforms, began to climb. The rest of the market scrambled after them. At the end of the 1,800,000-share day, busiest in weeks, the utilities were at 29.25, a seven years' peak...
...greatest herd of cattle on record (80 million head) roamed the vast, greening ranges. But many packers closed down near the end of last month, or worked only part time. The reason: OPA regulations make peak production unprofitable (subsidies to non-federally inspected packers are paid only for a monthly production equal to last year...
Stahl, who early this week expressed his fear of the greater experience in the fliers' lineup, has been directing his charges in a heavy schedule of practice games to drive them to their peak efficiency before the coming opener...