Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Queueing workers complained to an Express reporter: 1) there are seldom special busses for workers from factories to distant railroad stations; 2) no extra busses for peak hours; 3) workers are not given priority over shoppers. In Liverpool, said the Express, "there is no all-night bus service; ship-repair workers sometimes have to sleep beside the job they have finished. . . . The bus queues are something more than an inconvenience to the public. They add as much as three hours every day to a working day of eight hours. ... By bringing a few hundred men from other tasks...
...Human beings have their rhythms of elation and depression (according to a 15-year study by a University of Pennsylvania psychologist). These average either two or nine weeks from peak to peak...
...Animals and fish periodically thrive and decline. Many, notably lynx and salmon in Canada, have a cycle that averages nine and two-thirds years. A peak in elephants comes about every 62 years. Mice in the U.S. fluctuate in a four-year cycle; a plague sets them back every presidential-election year...
...National Industrial Conference Board this week reported that total U.S. employment at the end of June reached 63,500,000. This was not only a new peak; it was more workers than had previously been thought necessary to meet all military and civilian production goals. Yet the U.S. today is not meeting those goals and lack of manpower is a prime reason for the failure...
...fact: production of military plane engines at the $141,000,000 Lockland, Ohio plant has nose-dived 85% from the peak reached in March, last month was still only one-thirteenth of the projected capacity of the plant...