Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only last summer Washburn sealed Mt. Bertha, precipitous Alaskan peak, accompanied by four undergraduates: Maynard M. Miller '43; Thomas Winship '42; Alvah Morrison '43; and Lee Wilson, '42. He is to speak on this trip and will illustrate his talk with colored slides and motion pictures. To conclude the program William H. Forbes '23 of the Fatigue Laboratory will discuss the effects of high altitude...
...Army will be doing very well if that estimate is made good. If General Wesson's fears for delayed ordnance production are fulfilled, it will take more than a year to equip the Army. At super-human best, peak production on most of the schedules already drawn will not be reached before 1942. Since aircraft production has first place on these schedules, the rest of the Army can hardly expect to fare faster or better than the Air Corps...
...rolled in. By late Sunday the balance shifted, and 86 had agreed to ratify (one more than the required majority). Mutual stockholders met again, and Yankee's Shepard withdrew his opposition to make the vote unanimous. Proclaimed the victors smoothly: "The opposition was well organized but reached its peak early in the deliberations...
...Coronet, launched a year before (1936), was set to invade the profitable field occupied by Reader's Digest, and he was about to launch a newsmagazine to cut himself in on another field. Esquire, his big moneymaker, had become the darling of the barbershops and just hit a peak circulation of 677,000. In that happy moment Publisher Smart modestly guaranteed Esquire's advertisers...
...With factory building rivaling the 1920 peak and home construction best since 1929, building-material companies flourished. First-quarter profits of 23 companies were $11,254,000, up from $7,563,000 last year. Johns-Manville (with one-third of sales going to defense) did even better than many, cleared $1,562,000 v. $778,000 even though taxes jumped...