Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt commissioned a full-length statistical portrait of the year. He asked that the regular Census of Manufactures, scheduled for 1945, be moved up to 1944: "The record should include an account of our industrial system while it is geared up for maximum production. This may well be the peak year of production for many years to come...
...could say whether Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser was doing more than Planebuilder Donald Douglas or G.M.'s Charles E. Wilson or Big Steel's Ben Fairless. All together, they had sweated and strained to get war production to its peak and keep it there. The production lines spewed out so many tanks, planes and materiel of all kinds that, by midyear, the problem was considered no longer one of production but of cutbacks...
Surprisingly, the rush of buying was started again by the rail stocks, though most of the roads chugged past their profit peaks months ago. But at the prospect of heavy war traffic for most of 1945, the Johnny-come-latelies thought there was still time to climb aboard. Even such second-graders as Illinois Central helped lead the rush that put the rails at their peak since...
...industries engaged in reconversion planning along with their war work, that the jobs of reconversion and postwar employment are less fearsome, the closer they come. N.A.M. predicted that: 1) 95% of all U.S. industry could complete reconversion within eight weeks; 2) 76% of the manufacturers could reach peak production in that time; 3) postwar employment in manufacturing would be 30% higher than...
...they are glad to chuckle at the desperate measures formerly respectable citizens have adopted in the emergency. Employees at Michaels' Drug Store have lost all respect for an aged couple who, after buying at the store together for years, sud- denly feigned non-acquaintance one morn at the peak of the crisis in order to get two packs under the stringent one-to-a-customer basis...