Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Partly they could thank their own recent merchandising aggressiveness, stimulated by the chains and mail-order houses to whom they had been losing ground. With March volume 10-15% ahead of 1940, and April even better, department stores may this year equal their 1930 levels, if not the 1929 peak...
...Even so, the future of electricity in the Northwest clearly belonged to the Bonneville Power Administration. But McKee had a substitute line of goods: gas. He plugged gas for home heating, water heating, cooking and refrigeration. His gas volume last year hit a ten-year peak; his appliance salesmen outsold Bonneville power appliance salesmen. But for real profits, he needed more income from gas by-products as well (such as briquets, lampblack, benzol, road-surfacing tar). So now he is building the new by-products plant, hopes to boost by-products sales from 25% to 33-50% of gas sales...
...next big shipping season the inspectors backed up their blockade with armed highway police, sheriffs, constables, deputies, even a few game wardens. On a peak day they had 100 trucks lined up, 29 drivers in jail, another 30 out on bail. Next day a group of Valley shippers formed the Growers & Shippers Cooperative League* to try to keep their produce moving...
When Corpus Christi swings into peak operation in July, its 800 instructors will get 300 raw cadets every month. By that time the Navy's new air station at Jacksonville, Fla. will be at capacity (200 a month) its third air training station, Pensacola, up to 300. But Corpus Christi will be the only station where the full flying course (primary, basic and full advanced training) is given...
From this monthly pool of 800 potential airmen, the Navy hopes to get a peak of 560 pilots a month by next spring. It sorely needs them. Slow in getting under way, the Navy air program produced only 715 pilots last year, bringing its total to 3,639- a long way short of its immediate goal (15,000 fliers to man a 10,000 plane fleet), of its 1945 objective (25,000 active and reserve pilots) . Best it could hlpe for, even with the 13-month training course cut to seven and a half, was 6,000 graduate pilots...