Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plane still missing, a westbound pilot called. Something had gone wrong with the radio range, he said: he was hearing the "A" signal where he should be getting an "N." Salt Lake City airmen suspected Trip 16's fate before she was found, at noon, smashed against Bountiful Peak at 6,500 feet, 15 miles northeast of the field. All hands were dead-the two pilots, the stewardess, seven passengers...
Thus were these noncomplementary economics forced into partial yoke for diplomacy's sake. In the offing was a still more difficult problem : How could the U.S. arm Latin America while arming itself and Britain too? With the U. S. steel industry at an all-time production peak and domestic priorities threatening, Latin America's orders stood at the end of the queue. Japan was still importing steel sheets and shapes for its Navy from U. S. mills last week. One possible halfway step: to give Latin-American orders priority over Japanese...
Slowly but inexorably plantation rubber production climbed. It was only three years after the orgiastic peak of the Amazon Valley boom, in 1913, that plantation rubber production overtook wild. Always superior because of controlled quality, it pushed wild rubber from expanding markets till, in the peak year of 1934, out of a world production of 1,019,000 tons Brazil contributed but 9,000 tons, a catastrophic 0.89%. In Iquitos, Peru, upriver from Manaus, docks fell into disrepair. Manaus grew clean and hungry. The State of Amazonas defaulted both internal and external debt regularly each year...
With a fair sprinkling of mud, the Plan E campaign reached its peak of verbosity yesterday when Mayor Lyons asserted in a radio speech that only "quacks and parlor pinks" were sponsoring the proposed charter for Cambridge while Dean Landis charged that the last two years here are examples of how a city should not be managed...
Great Britain last week totted up how much it costs to fight Adolf Hitler, found if September's weekly peak expenditures of ?70,000,000 were maintained the year would close with Britain ?3,570,000,000 "out of pocket." To make up the difference between ?70,000,000 weekly outgo and estimated tax revenues of ?30,000,000 weekly, ?20,000,000 was coining in from subscription to war issues, ?10,000,000 from sale of gold and securities abroad and the rest from customers' deposits lent by joint stock banks to the Treasury. Orthodox Economist...