Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Naturally mid-years will set us back a certain amount," said Coach McCoy. No regular practice has been held during exams, so the players will naturally be a little slow in reaching their previous peak...
...could not see why in winter, when days are short, the extra hour of daylight gained by sending workers home before dark would not be lost again in the morning, by getting them up before dawn. Clarence Lea explained: home consumption, morning or night, is of secondary importance; the peak consumption of power is caused by factories and offices between 5 and 7 p.m. By cutting down on this load, the Administration hopes to save 736,282,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity each year-enough juice to produce over 70,000,000 Ib. of much-needed aluminum for planes...
...Souvenir Program (Paul Whiteman Orchestra; Victor Album). Ten sides (four previously unissued), with solos by the late great Trumpeter "Bix" Beiderbecke and vocals by Bing Crosby, made in 1928 when the Whiteman band was at its peak...
...last remnant of the would-be newspaper empire started 29 years ago by the late, great Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, genius of the Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, etc. His empire-building had cost $42,000,000 and he had bought, started or swallowed eight newspapers with a combined peak circulation of 848,000. But, like Frank Munsey and Bernarr Macfadden, he never discovered what, besides pouring in money, makes a great newspaper tick...
Dreher Hits Peak...