Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home, though we made a drastic cut by stopping all trial subscription offers and though we are still unable to supply enough copies to meet the newsstand demand, the circulation of TIME's regular domestic edition has forced itself back up to about the same 1,193,011 peak it hit just before paper curtailment-with roughly 800,000 subscribers and 400,000 newsstand buyers. And another 38,000 copies of our wartime classroom edition go to the nation's schools to be used as their textbook in current affairs...
...effects of freezing weather and no whiskey have already evidenced themselves: within four days the population at Stillman has rocketed from 15 to 29. The Hygiene Department hoped that the peak of the grippe epidemic was over and consoled itself by chattering frigidly of "upper respiratory diseases...
Behind the Headlines. That was how the story emerged in the headlines. The dry, unread manpower statistics are just as dramatic: last winter, when the shortage talk had barely begun, was the all-time peak employment period for nonagricultural labor; ever since then the trend has been down (see chart...
...about the beautiful washers, irons, refrigerators and other aids to streamlined living that are just around the corner. But once again the spray of news evaporated. What was left: the citizenry, some time in 1944, will probably get 2,000,000 standardized, $35 electric irons, about one-third of peak production (1941); there may also be a few new refrigerators and washing machines...
Kessler claimed to be enjoying life much more. Bader went so far as to say his happiness cure was still rising, the peak not yet in sight. Ridge stated that it would be asking too much to expect any improvement in himself, but he did give it his unqualified approval...