Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manufacturing corporations up a whacking 23% in the last year, profits had risen so little-with renegotiation still in the offing for some companies. Taxes and bigger operating costs were finally outpacing the swelling production of many a corporation. They are still making plenty of money, but the peak may well be past...
...farmers, reported the Department of Agriculture, paid off $467 million of their mortgage debt last year. This left their total mortgage debt at $5.6 billion, lowest figure in 27 years, 48% under 1923's peak. Few farmers have forgotten their mad scramble for more land at any price during World War I, followed by the collapse of the farm boom in 1922. When the topheavy mortgage structure crashed during the Depression, 85,000 farmers were wiped out by foreclosure. Now land values are creeping upward again as farm income soars to an alltime high. But the farmers will...
...reached such a peak that the Berlin radio said: "The invasion air force is now actually in the fight." Berlin claimed that Allied prisoners, who had parachuted from crippled planes, included highly trained invasion airmen never sent on routine attacks until the week before...
...Japanese rush into Manipur, India's easternmost state, had apparently reached its peak, was receding before British attack. In North Burma General Joseph W. Stilwell's columns pushed slowly along the Ledo Road toward China. Airborne British and Indian Raiders, recently reinforced, roamed through the Japanese rear, slashing and wrecking...
...high hilltop, every day, all day long, an R.A.F. lieutenant equipped with binoculars and telephone sits on a fuel can, spotting aircraft. Two other spotters are Partisan girls roosting on the island's only snow-clad peak. When planes approach they signal by firing their rifles, and these signals are relayed in like manner to battle headquarters, which sounds a siren to alert the island's anti-aircraft gunners...