Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Land-locked Denver staged a significant "launching" last week. At the Denver railroad yard, a pretty stenographer crashed a bottle of Pike's Peak snow water against the first of eight freight cars, and the "Good Ship Mountain Maid" rumbled westward-loaded with prefabricated steel for the hulls of naval escort ships. Same day, their keels were laid at California's Mare Island Navy Yard...
...Packard became the first U.S. automobile manufacturer to report more employes (17,904) in its war-converted plants than at its peacetime peak (15,542 in 1937). Among the new men: 96 former Packard distributors, dealers and salesmen...
Axis air raids on Malta have climbed to a new peak of intensity, renewing suspicion that Adolf Hitler may be concentrating on efforts to knock out Britain's central Mediterranean base before spring...
...peak (in World War I), City News served 22 papers, employed 150 reporters. Newspaper mergers and resignations whittled membership to eight. When two of these (the Herald Tribune and Post) resigned last month, their share of assessments (about $72,800 a year) was loaded on the remaining six members (Times, News, World-Telegram, Sun, Journal-American, A.P.). These six could neither agree to pay this extra nor to accept less service. Associated Press announced that it would take over City New's tricky urban coverage, adding 29 of its 67 reporters to A.P.'s own local staff...
...twenty-one years old. Dull months of R.A.F. training routine during the "phony"' war had left him impatient of routine precautions. For him, no such impedimenta as gauntlets and goggles. Barehanded, open-eyed, through 23 days of combat duty at the peak of the Battle for Britain he went against the Messerschmitts. He had downed his quota in dogfights, learned to "Beware of the Hun in the Sun," to go into a spin when bullets started appearing along his port wing. "There is an appalling tendency," he remarks, "to sit and watch this happen without taking any action...