Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain, as in the U. S., the audience peak is at 8 p.m., with some 85% of listeners listening. In Britain, cradle of woman suffrage, father picks the programs most of the time...
...when the coming depression had undervalued them. In 1930-33, Odlum, with cash in hand, picked up control of enormous pools of capital by paying their hard-hit sponsors a few cents on their lately pyramided dollars. Out of Depression Atlas emerged as No. 1 U. S. investment trust (peak assets: $121,336,779 in 1933) and Odlum emerged as the U. S.'s newest tycoon, the only one extant who had done his pyramiding when other pyramids were crumbling...
...Angeles. He had thinking to do. Since end of 1929 U.S. investment trusts have suffered dollar & prestigewise (TIME, March 25). Atlas alone had conspicuously beaten the game. Its asset value per common share had risen from $5.06 to $12.80-153%. It had distributed nearly $60,000,000 of its peak assets, plus around $20,000,000 in dividends. What was left in the kitty was largely profit to Atlas' original security holders...
...sales, with 1940's first two months up about 30% from 1939. But January and February are the year's slackest sales period, and even good February sales were not able to keep pace with February production of 409,667 cars and trucks (down 12.6% from 1939 peak). By March 1 dealers had over 460,000 cars on their floors, and at the current rate may have nearly 550,000 units on hand April 1 (400,000 is considered about par for that date...
...took 75 years for the Lincoln legend to develop to the point where playing Abraham Lincoln (in Abe Lincoln in Illi nois) could be a peak in the career of an actor like Raymond Massey. The Edison legend is just beginning in the movies which Edison invented. What the rest of the legend would be like depended in part on who interpreted the first installment...