Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steel industry is notoriously unstable. Whenever it approaches peak operations, blows in its last 10% of becob-webbed furnaces, farsighted businessmen begin to expect sudden collapse. Last week steel was flying all the danger signals. Some companies were feverishly running furnaces that could use relining, fearful that time out for repair would lose them business. Deferring repairs is steelmen's standard practice in a boom, the theory being that steel booms rarely last long enough to cause serious breakdowns...
...Peak hours in the Memorial Hall ratrace, according to last year's figures which are contained in Hooper's report, are between eleven and twelve o'clock on Friday, and between ten and eleven on Saturday and Monday...
...last week, at the peak of his career, handsome, laconic, 52-year-old José Félix Estigarribia, soldier, diplomat, statesman, boarded a plane with his wife in Asuncion for a holiday at his country home on Lake Ypacaray. Somewhere between Altos and San Bernardino, 65 miles east of the capital, the pilot ran into fog and crashed...
...been ousted from home by his family and jailed for stealing, was living meagrely on Federal relief, his pride had been wounded by a hospital doorman who refused to let him use the visitors' entrance. On airing his tribulations his stomach acid first dropped, then rose, reaching a peak when his anger was manifestly greatest. Bloody shreds and bile were also found in the specimens...
Construction. In 1937, again in 1939, consumer-goods booms collapsed before construction could get started. This time, defense is starting a construction boom before the consumer-goods industries reach their peak. Engineering construction contracts will probably total $3,500,000,000 in 1940, against $3,000,000,000 in 1939 and $4,000,000,000 in 1929. At a volume of around $80,000,000 a week they are already running slightly better than the 1929 rate. Items...