Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that a U.S. flyer, cutting across the mountains to Chinese Turkestan, had taken his plane up through a soupy overcast to 31,000 ft. Said the unnamed pilot: "I was surprised to find I was flying parallel with a mountain, between 2,000 and 3,000 ft. below its peak...
What an American plane was doing on the Turkestan route, Atkinson did not report. But directly across the line of flight between central Asia and some of the China bases lies the legend-shrouded, fabulous peak of Anye Machin. Standing at the clear headwaters of the Yellow River, high on the fringes of Tibet, cloudy Anye Machin has never been surveyed, is known to geographers and explorers only by native report...
General Motors' white-thatched President Charles Erwin Wilson gave the House Committee on Postwar Planning a preview of huge G.M.'s huge plans for the future. The news: if all U.S. businessmen plan things the G.M. way, postwar production will be 50% higher than the prewar peak and almost as big-in terms of employment-as it is now. Wilson highlights...
...taken out of a game. There are two moments of greatness: the slow, tentative wading ashore of the relief troops on the fourth day (no camera recorded the slaughter of 300 to 400 on the second); the faces of the marines as they watch the flag rise to the peak of the pole they have...
Fewer Shoes. Last year's total shoe production was down 5% from 1942, in turn down 3% from the 1941 peak; 461,573,000 pairs were produced (9% above 1939, the prewar high). This looked like a lot, but 47 million went to the military, and another 100,000,000 or so were heavy workshoes or fabric and composition numbers ranging from canvas beach & tennis shoes to strictly fireside slippers...