Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...camps were going up last week. In last spring's census, Alexandria had a population of 27,066. By last week this figure had jumped to somewhere between 45,000 and 60,000. Construction of the camps had employed 25,000 men regularly since last September; in one peak week 30,000 were at work. Rooming houses and small hotels had waiting lists twice as big as their capacities. Some of them were turning over their rooms three times a day, renting them for eight hours of sleep...
...Earle. He is kind to the mongrel dog (Zero) that travels with him, befriends a taxi dancer (Ida Lupino) who becomes his moll, goes out of his way to help a crippled girl (Joan Leslie). All Roy Earle wants is freedom. He finds it for good on a lonely peak in the mountains...
Their parts were fabricated in inland mills shipped to the yard for assembly. The first keel was laid Feb. 12, 1918, the last 22 months later. The first ship was launched Aug. 5, 1918-less than eleven months after the yard was begun. At peak production, a keel was laid every five and one-half days. One day in 1919 five ships smoked down the ways into the Delaware in 48 minutes, ten seconds...
...into a storm, got within 40 miles of San Diego and safety. A work man on the ground thought that he saw flame in the sky; a rancher heard the transport's engines, flying low, then heard a distant crash. When searchers reached the top of Mother Grundy Peak, they found the smashed ship, eleven bodies, nobody alive to tell just what had happened. Airmen knew that for the four from the PBY, the last hell and thrill of flight in storm must have been about the same...
...last week let out a few facts which indicated that he had not yet given similar instructions to his own Administration. The Department reported that in October U. S. exports to Japan were up 47% from September to $26,195,000-$3,138,000 under their 1939-40 monthly peak...