Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...score of letters from Cubans telling of poverty and bad times-or at least a reasonable facsimile. Undoubtedly Cuba's prosperity is not yet felt by all classes. But there are also plain and simple facts: 1) Cuba's income this year is at a 15-year peak; 2) Cubans have more automobiles, radios, refrigerators and telephones than ever. Furthermore, the entire export sugar crop has been bought by the U.S. at 2.65? (compared to a pre-war world sugar price of less than 1?), and will be paid for whether or not delivery is taken...
...employment hit a new peak of 53,300,000 in June-up 1,700,000 over May. But even so WPA reckons that unemployment went up 200,000 last month to a total of 2,800,000, because 1,900,000 young people finished school and began looking for jobs...
...much as a soccer victory, despite its structural looseness and occasional melodic banalities, the Seventh is probably the most emotionally mature of Shostakovich's symphonies, is almost certain to be one of his most popular. But it still leaves an important question unanswered: Is Composer Shostakovich the last peak in the European musical range whose summit was Beethoven, or is he the beginning of a new sierra...
...stand-by crops have shared equally in the new records. Pork, beef and milk are far above the old peaks. Wheat, corn and oats are not far below their alltime highs, despite smaller acreage. New crops like soybeans, flaxseed, peanuts and canning vegetables have zoomed from nowhere to pass many of the old leaders. Cotton has sagged 39% below the 1926 peak. "A banner year," caroled the Department of Agriculture...
...Peak of the national debt at the close of World War I was $26½ billion. This week, at the end of the Government's fiscal year, seven months after Pearl Harbor, the debt stood at $76 billion, a rise of $27 billion since last year. Government expenditures in June were an estimated $4½ billion, were on the way up to the stars. No one said "Wheel...