Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army Air Forces are using high-octane gasoline in Europe at double the anticipated rate. To keep its combat planes flying at peak efficiency, the Navy has had to shuttle its high-octane gas around like a bucket brigade at a fire...
...Labor Minister Robert Ley promised German workers a grandiose housing program. In 1944, bombed-out workers were getting: a one-room house, 8 feet high from floor to roof peak, 12 by 18 feet of floor space. A curtain separated sleeping space from combined kitchen, living room. A privy hung on an outside wall. Families with more than five children were allowed two houses, two privies...
...foot-by-foot battle even after the island's peak, Mt. Tapotchau, had been captured. Japs hung on in the ravines until they were killed. Tanks had to be used against pockets no bigger than 100 yards in diameter. Many Jap caves had steel doors which were opened periodically for machine guns to fire. Snipers were everywhere. An Army colonel was shot through the heart by a sniper who had hidden more than a week. A recurrent gag, reported TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, was that the safest place to be was in the front line...
...other hand, it was noted that more people were seeking nightly shelter in the subways than at any time since the great blitz of 1940-41. And Minister Morrison warned that the robot barrage might not yet have reached its peak...
...swarm of little buyers who jumped into the market last week. Till then, the slow rise of the market had been paced by the high-priced Blue Chips (TIME, June 12). These were still popular, but they were being rapidly shouldered out by cheap stocks. On the peak day all but one of the most active stocks sold for under...