Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next hour was full of our boys parachuting down. Lucien landed in a pile of brush, wrapped himself in his parachute and went to sleep. Brick landed hard on his fanny on top of the next mountain peak and dozed off. One boy landed beside a mountain ledge, lit a cigaret in the dark, flicked the burnt butt on the ground beside him. He looked down and saw the butt dropping hundreds of feet below him into what seemed a bottom less void. He didn't move another foot until daylight. Crouch hit the ground about 20 miles from...
Transportation. The railroads' war boom now may also be Ringling's boom: they cut their itinerary to 8.000 miles (v. a previous peak of 20,000), decided to play longer runs in big towns east of the Mississippi (thus raising the gross and cutting expenses) and to plug such money-heavy war communities as Detroit. All the "bloomers" (towns with speculative box-office possibilities) were scratched. Excess baggage went overboard: the whole show now fits into 70 cars, moves in three trains (v. go in four trains last year...
Press agentry in the democracies has perhaps passed its peak. The release in June 1942 of certain important news of Pacific air and sea fighting in the form of a commercial plug-a congratulatory telegram from General Arnold to an aircraft manufacturer-was an incident that has not been, and probably will not be, repeated...
...woman's place is in the home, and few women have been placed in factories. But boys of twelve work afternoons in war industries, and soldiers are frequently used as laborers. Transport has been crippled by the labor shortage. In Rome trains and trams run only at the peak hours. Travel between cities is impossible without special police permission. Only one train a day runs between Naples and Rome; once there were 15. And trains do not run on time...
...American Steel & Wire Co. When American Steel & Wire became a subsidiary of U.S. Steel Corp. in 1901 he bossed Big Steel's foreign developments, became president ten years later. Under him the corporation developed its own far-ranging carrier fleets, wide-scattered mines, reached a sales peak of nearly $1½ billions in '29. He retired at 70 to put the management on a "more permanent foundation composed of younger...