Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...notorious night owl, will probably enter the ring a better man than last time. Army life has put him in the pink of condition, added 15 Ib. to his weight of a year ago (when he weighed 174 to Louis' 200). At 24, he should be at the peak of his fistic career. Always slow at getting himself into fighting shape, Louis has been hindered, not helped, by the cavalry. Used to training for six weeks or more, he may find four weeks too short to get his fill of roadwork before starting to sharpen his timing...
Arrangements are only half of the situation; you have to have good soloists in your band, even if they don't take solos. This is amply illustrated by Goodman's band at its peak. At this time he had just about the finest white soloists in the country, but his records concentrate on the arrangements and feature only scattered solos. Yet these records contain the most spirited playing any big white band has put on wax. Miller can only lay claim to Bobby Hackett and possibly Billy May as definitely first rate improvisers, although little of their work with...
Fuel men say there will be plenty of coal for Eastern home owners with coal furnaces if they get it in within 30-40 days. Consumers who wait until cold weather may find themselves worse off than oil furnace owners because then army ordnance shipments will be at a peak. Of 1,400,000 Eastern homes with oil furnaces, 700,000 can be converted easily to coal, but only 40,000 have been changed so far. The ration plan proposes that home owners who can convert furnaces but fail to do so shall get no extra ration...
...highs (double the year's lows); Electric Power & Light preferreds had jumped five and six points; Electric Bond & Share preferreds were up more than six points; Empire Gas & Fuel 8% preferred topped a phenomenal rise with eight more points to hit 166⅞ - an alltime peak and nearly double the year's low. Not since late 1940 have utility stocks (common or preferred) shown any mildly comparable...
...reapers and combines had gathered in the sheaves of grain. Now comes the peak time for harvesting other crops, work in which machines have not yet taken a man's place. And this fall there are bigger crops than ever in the U.S. but fewer human harvesters...