Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should be in favor of the Crimson, though, and that is morale. After the Navy and Dartmouth games, Harvard was expected to slump against Princeton, and it did exactly that. Now the psychology experts figure that it will be on the upswing, while Army, which hit a real emotional peak against the Irish, should suffer a similar letdown, preferably Saturday afternoon...
...defense expenditures reached a new peak, passed $50,000,000 a day. At this figure, the U.S. is now spending $6,000,000 more a day for defense than Great Britain is spending daily...
...Peak Egg, an egg substitute, the London Daily Mirror's acidulous Columnist Cassandra wrote: "No hen ever laid egg or eyes on Peak Egg. . . . Take eight ounces of ordinary flour and two ounces of bicarbonate of soda, add a little dye and just a trace of gum. Mix well . . . relax and wait for the great unending public of British suckers...
...marked Harper's peak. In 1925, with circulation down to 75,000, it changed format, dropped illustrations, printed less fiction, more articles dealing with ideas, trends, U.S. mores. Now its circulation is 106,800 and Editor Allen sees no reason "why a magazine with the general purposes and standards of Harper's shouldn't have a circulation of 15,000 or 300,000, depending on how interesting...
Hampered by shortages, priorities, Government red tape and labor troubles, U.S. business is marking time. For twelve weeks TIME'S Index has held within a 4½-point range. Car-loadings are still about 80,000 cars below the 1,000,000-car peak predicted for October. Auto production, some 30,000 units under 1940, is not even keeping pace with the quotas imposed by OPM. Even in the textile industry, fat with Army orders, output has declined sharply since June...