Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week wife No. 2, ex-secretary Arline Peak Fear, also applied for divorce, tried to explain it all to Judge Henry M. Willis. Said she: Ralph Gordon Fear married his first wife only 800 years ago. But when he was a Roman warrior (2,300 years ago, to be exact) he had married an earlier incarnation of Arline Peak Fear. Result: wife No. 1 recognized wife No. 2's seniority, quietly got her divorce and $2,000,000, Describing the first meeting of Mr. Fear and the two Mrs. Fears, Arline Fear testified: "Out at the desert cottage...
...force in the world: 18,269 planes on July 31, 1943, a ten times net increase over 1940, when Navy planes totaled 1,744. Since then the Navy has lost or written off as obsolete 6,800 planes and has transferred 2,100. >"Total naval shipbuilding is approaching its peak-as planned. . . . In the midst of war the U.S. has built its Navy into the greatest sea-air power on earth. Its size is dwarfed only by the size of the task which confronts...
Writing in the September issue of Mining and Metallurgy, Humble's president struck a comprehensive, up-to-date balance sheet on oil. Crude requirements from domestic sources, now about 4,150,000 bbl.* daily, will reach an alltime peak of 4,400,000 bbl. in '44, which exceeds estimates of the maximum amount the U.S. can produce efficiently by 130,000 bbl. a day. This is an increase in daily demand of 525,000 bbl. in three years...
...they received in the same period last year and around 65% more than the first seven months of booming 1929 produced. Wages and salaries alone (at $56,761,000,000) amounted to 19% more than personal-income payments of all kinds in the year that used to mean Prosperity Peak...
...California's huge (404 acres) San Quentin had a prewar peak of 5,600 prisoners...