Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government bonds is bulging the U.S. bank assets. As of June 30, 1940, the country's commercial and savings banks held only $19.6 billion of Governments. In four years they have swelled their holdings by $56.5 billion, thus pushing deposits up from $70.7 billion to their current alltime peak of $129.3 billion, carrying bank assets along...
...Information Board reported that 5,000,000 Canadians were now employed, including 750,000 in the armed forces. It estimated that full employment after the war would mean 4,700,000 jobs, including 200,000 in the services. This amounted to a million more jobs than existed in the peak prewar year...
...peak of the injury season is the first five minutes of the third quarter in the game nearest October...
Most Londoners preferred bombs to robombs. At its peak the robomb blitz destroyed or damaged 17,000 houses a day, a destruction rate never equaled in the much longer bomb blitz...
There were 1,683 new polio cases in the U.S. for the week ending Sept. 2, a new high bringing the total for the year to 9,474. Doctors hoped that the peak had been reached. Total cases reported for 1916, the worst polio year...