Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because Meade was a closed-shop job, workers had been forced to join either the A. F. of L. carpenters' union or laborers' union. At the peak, 11,800 laborers got jobs. The carpenters' union could supply only 200 of its regular members, but 8,113 carpenters had to be hired. Army men said that about 55% of them were roughwork carpenters, 35% were not fully qualified. "Sears Roebuck carpenters" arrived at the site with $5 worth of new tools and a desire to cut in on the Government bonanza. But the unions were the boys...
...City Southern ran 25% ahead of 1940, on the Frisco and St. Louis Southwestern 20%. Others felt the abnormal rush for coal, U. S. freight item No. 1. New York Central and Baltimore & Ohio, both big coal carriers, moved more freight that week than during 1940's traffic peak in October...
...Terry" Moore will recapture Minya Konka, third highest peak climbed by man, in an illustrated lecture to be given before an open meeting of the Mountaineering Club at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the Lowell House Common Room...
...Almost as high as the 1929 pre-crash peak...
...what had seemed to many a layman a wild charge: that some of the accidents, if not all, were due to CAA's reorganization. The documentation came from the new Civil Aeronautics Board itself. In its analytical report of the crash of a United Air Liner on Bountiful Peak, northeast of Salt Lake City, last November (TIME, Nov. 17), CAB frankly admitted the probable cause of the accident: the Salt Lake City radio range going out of whack before United's veteran pilot, Howard Fey, started to let down through a snowy overcast. More, CAB cited a miserable...