Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough to lead the U. S. economy into a boom. Instead of booming, business activity (as measured by the Federal Reserve Board production index) backed & filled at the pre-war level, between 100 and 105% of the 1923-25 average. In certain industries, the war export market caused peak production, a real strain on capacity. But by & large, these were the industries that needed the stimulus least...
...Reached its New York subscription peak of 30,000 members...
Like the characters in the "Ascent of F-6," the Dramatic Club, in its present production, has hit a new peak in its career. The show was outstanding for its smooth and forceful direction by L. J. Profit, S. R. Sheppard, and J. B. McMeehan, but the Club's choice of a play gave them superb raw material with which to work. The young English poets, Auden and Isherwood, have tried to portray "the universal tragedy of man in a man-made world." By a simple and polyphonic prose, verse of varied complexity, a tragic chorus, lyric refrain and dream...
Directed by Richard Whittemore '40 in the proper technique of mountain climbing, five actors must be able to scale the 22-foot high stage platform representing the mountain peak...
With the story of a fatal expedition to scale the peak by British mountaineers, the play attempts to represent the struggle of man, the idealist, against the forces of civilization...