Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even so, WPB is still nervous about paperboard. No one can tell what huge new demands will grow out of peak war production. The packaging industry has not yet converted from tin to paper. WPB therefore instructed salvage committees to be "very careful to leave the door open for resuming paper collections...
Rumors of a United Nations thrust in Africa, before the peak heat comes, flew about in Rome last week like leaves in a skittish wind. Some said the offensive had already started with stepped-up R.A.F. activity over the Libyan deserts. Others reported that Anglo-American naval forces had concentrated "in the neighborhood of Tripoli." No Axis nerves were soothed when the Giornale d'ltalia announced that "the Anglo Saxons have succeeded recently in transporting strong reinforcements to their Egyptian bases...
Starting at a low of 6,300,000 listeners (Hooper rating, 9.7) on June 10, 1936, the President wandered over graphic foothills for four years, suddenly leaped to a peak of 42,500,000 listeners (57.0) for the Stab-in-the-Back broadcast of June 10, 1940. As national self-absorption went down, Presidential audiences went up- 43,900,000 (59.0) for the Arsenal of Democracy Speech; 53,800,000 (69.8) for the Declaration of National Emergency; 62,100,000 (79.0) for the War Message...
...number of dividend reductions and omissions this year will hit a new peak since 1930-31. Last week 29 corporations reduced or omitted their common dividends...
...Detroit is already employing more men to make arms than it did to make cars. Last month's payroll: 505,000 workers. Pre-Pearl Harbor peak...