Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem of this buying is transport from the mines, etc. to South American railheads and ports. Reason: Preclusive buying means an option to take whatever Latin Americans can develop, much of which may be far from present transportation facilities. Hastily preparing for a peak load on her own rails, trucks and ships, the U.S.-if serious about her new democratic imperialism-must find some way to keep the freight trains of South America rolling...
...these ratings already may be outdated. The Wall Street Journal estimated last week that major air lines flew some 17½% more passenger-miles during May than in April; that May air traffic (with almost perfect flying weather) was 34% over a year ago, an alltime peak. Result: U.S. air lines flew some 454,970,000 passenger-miles in 1941's first five months-more than in any full year before...
...Oregon the big strawberry crop was at harvest peak last week. With 27,000 pickers needed, the State was 4,000 shy. In Portland 280 ministers appealed from their pulpits for men to help save the crop; high schools dismissed children of relief families so that they could go into the fields. The State employment service sought workers with broadcasts over five radio stations, handbills in stores and pool halls, a banner-plastered automobile which went roaring over the State...
supply (enough to last three years) has been in the hands of two or three speculative groups, who bought their way in for about $800,000 and have pushed the price from 4½? to a peak of 7⅝? a Ib. This increase of 70% in four months compares with an average increase of 6% for all commodities...
...A.A.R. announced last week, U.S. railroads had more new freight cars on order than at any other time in 16 years. The total: 56,502. New locomotives on order, also at a post-1926 peak, totaled...