Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...several months, the University has been eliminating all its academic frills, and it has recently taken off some of its architectural frills. All the iron ornaments along the peak of the roof on Matthews Hall, have been taken down, and will be given to the government for scrap...
...orange-bright explosions of Jap torpedo planes above the calm blue China Sea - greying Cecil Brown remarked: "I think it ... brings more grey hairs to your head to resist the pressures ... of offi cials. . . ." The award to Brown reflected rightful honor on U.S. radio newshawking abroad, which reached its peak in 1941. Other awards showed an equal sense of the significant...
...spite of the unprecedented tax drain, the U.S. went on an Easter shopping spree. Department-store sales jumped 10% to 70% to an alltime Easter peak. Best sellers were clothes (especially woolen garments), radios, refrigerators, shoes. Individual purchases were huge: a dozen socks or stockings, two and three suits or dresses, shoes three pairs at a time, shirts and blouses by half-dozens. Mob scenes in stores were frequent. In Philadelphia and Cincinnati, stores ran ads begging customers to buy less. In some places the police had to keep order...
Since 1942's carloadings are making history, the railroads expect to need up wards of 1,800,000 cars to carry the fall traffic peak, which appears likely to reach an alltime record. To meet this demand the Office of Defense Transportation had requested 130,000 new cars for delivery during the last eight months of the year. These, in addition to the 45,000 cars which the railroads were authorized to get by May, would give the railroads some reserve against unpredictable peak loadings...
Production Off. TIME'S Index eased to 171.6 (estimated) in the April 4 week. Final figure for the preceding week was 172.0. A rise in steel output to an alltime peak was offset by lower miscellaneous freight loadings...