Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rapid expansion to meet both emergency and normal civilian demand were 39.2%. Notably on the anti-expansionist side were railway and utility men. But not all railway executives believe that their own present capacity is enough; 19.6% did not believe that they could handle this fall's traffic peak without delays...
When Moss turned up at Dayton's McCook Field with his turbo in 1918, he met the traditional experience of all inventors: the "glassy eye," as he recalls, of skeptical industrialists and Army brass hats. He took them to the top of Pike's Peak, where a 350-h.p. Liberty motor gave only 230 h.p. in the thin air at 14,000 feet. When Moss cut in his supercharger, the motor roared away...
...fastnesses where they breed. Total extermination of the crickets is not planned, nor is it possible. "We are not interested in what they do back in the mountains," said a bombing officer last week. "So far as we are concerned, the crickets can eat the top off of Pikes Peak if they want...
...retroactive feature of OPACS' price ceilings on gray goods, were billing at the old higher prices. Some furniture makers were still defiant of "jawbone" price control, as Chrysler had been (TIME, July 7). The price of cotton rose 3/4? to 15.21? a pound, a new eleven-year peak. Commodity price indexes paused on their upward flight, but briefly. Montgomery Ward's big fall & winter catalogue came out with 70% of the items showing higher prices than last spring, and a hedge clause on all prices to boot. Sears' new catalogue showed an average price rise of around...
...approaching September-October traffic peak held no terrors for A.A.R., it held plenty for defense officials. A.A.R.'s optimism is based on its own estimate of 1941 traffic: 40,898,871 carloads, 12.5% more than last year. But carloadings thus far are up 17.3%. Non-A.A.R. economists on whom the Administration depends for railroad data now estimate 1941 carloadings at about 46,000,000, more than 20% above 1940. Their pessimistic forecasts: 1) there will be a shortage of about 135,000 cars this fall; 2) to avoid an even more serious shortage in the fall...