Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...president of B. F. Goodrich Co., celebrated the third anniversary of his first synthetic-tire sale with a significant look at the future for all kinds of rubber. He forecast a world rubber demand of at least 2,000,000 tons a year-almost twice the world's peak prewar consumption...
Motorists were hardest hit in Washington, D.C., where filling-station operators hung up "no gas" signs and went home. (Buses to Mt. Vernon were discontinued.) The Richmond Chamber of Commerce persuaded business offices to stagger working hours to ease peak loads on public conveyances. Philadelphia's OPA inspectors, quizzing 1,000 suspected pleasure drivers, found a surprising number of gas users on their way to (or just returning from) their grandmothers' funerals. Manhattan Sunday bus service was slashed deep: Fifth Avenue was empty...
GEORGE W. PEAK...
...peak strength the Axis troops in Tunisia never numbered more than 250,000, were perhaps nearer 150,000. About 50,000 had been killed or captured since the Mareth battle. There were probably something more than 100,000 left when the final assault began last week...
...textile industry's estimates of 1943 needs for all these essentials, run up to 9 billion yd. That would leave U.S. civilians only about five billion yd. (v. a civilian 8.9 billion yd. last year). Even this esti mate includes the entire carryover, assumes that production stays at peak besides...