Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shaw McCutcheon hit his highest peak so far this season when he scored 122 points in the diving event against Dick Krotkiewicz of Navy...
This meeting is especially welcome to Coach John Chase, who feels that a game is far more valuable to a team than practice sessions, and by virtue of tonight's encounter he hopes to have Harvard at its peak for the Princeton set-to, which will in large part determine the future of this year's team...
Production. "Our munitions output is gigantic . . . and it is bounding up in a most remarkable manner. . . . We are producing more than twice as many far more complicated guns every month as we did in the peak of the 1917-18 war period...
Died. Marion Sayle Taylor, 52, radio's "Voice of Experience"; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. Squat, rain-barrel-voiced, he dispensed advice on everything from cookery to marital relations, at the peak of his popularity a few years ago drew from listeners some 30,000 anxious letters a week. He was married three times, divorced twice...
...scrap is not so rich as it was. Railroads, once a big source, are scrapping less, repairing more; an 1892 locomotive was reconditioned for New York Central service last week (see cut). The closing of auto assembly lines cut another big source at least until war production reaches its peak. Yet scrap still lies over the face of the U.S. like a rusty rash-jalopy graveyards, abandoned streetcar tracks, cellar junk. Why doesn't it move to the mills...