Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Four Jills in a Jeep" for here again the cinemagnates proudly pat themselves on the back for their efforts. Through the entire picture there is an endless account of how hard Hollywood has worked to set up the canteen and how wonderful it is. The self-praise reaches its peak when the usual representative of Flatbush praises the canteen with, "Dat's real democracy for ya; all dem big shots listening ta us little shots...
...last hour's trading, 800,000 shares changed hands. Twice the high speed ticker fell behind. Result: the Dow-Jones industrial averages soared to 156.68, highest since the war-begotten boomlet of September 1939. The rail averages kept pace with them. At 51.35, railroad stocks were at their peak since 1937, when the last big bull market fell on its face...
...sure of getting enough goods to keep sales at their peak, the merchants brought with them the greatest troupe of buyers ever to invade Manhattan's wholesale markets. Some wholesalers dourly accused the merchants of doing a little panic buying on their own account...
...Waring sees it, the biggest post-war job for rural newspapers will be in getting communities to "sit" on post-war projects. "For two years after the last war," he explains, "there were plenty of jobs, plenty of money, and things had to be bought at peak prices. Then a depression came." He warns against a similar mad wave of spending following the present...
...tomorrow did not come in 1944. U.S. war spending, which reached its peak in June, and then was expected to start down, stayed at $250,000,000 per day, near the peak. Almost unnoticed, tight-shut ammunition plants were reopened, big new contracts were loaded on businessmen who had once worried about cutbacks. At first the explanation was that new Army & Navy tactics, plus new discoveries, demanded new weapons. But when WPBoss Krug, who walked the tight line between civilian and military demands, slapped a "freeze" on any more civilian production, the explanation of new tactics was not enough...