Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are very few composers, if any, who can stand beside Handel in choral writing. After centuries of evolution, music for voices as a definite expressive element reached the apex of development in his works, a peak that never again has been reached. Later masters, such as Mozart and Beethoven, studied his writings sedulously in an effort to compose as tellingly for voices as he did; yet, in net effect, his works stand unrivalled...
When anthracite coal hit a production peak of 99,611,811 tons in 1917, the industry was Pennsylvania's No. 1 source of income. By 1932 it was her No. 1 headache. Of last year's estimated 48,800,000-ton output, about 8% was cut from abandoned workings and peddled by some 10,000 bootleg miners. Otherwise unemployed, they made an average $19.50 a week, undersold legitimate producers as much as $2 a ton. On the ropes from soft coal, oil and gas competition, high freight rates and depression, producers were in no shape to fight back...
...last week it seemed that The Nation after 75 years had passed its radical peak, was headed back toward Godkin. Wrote Max Lerner in a survey of U. S. reform: ". . . Marxian influence . . . led to an ac cent on faith which . . . could result only in a drastic disillusionment. . . . The only possible focus for an American Left is America. . . . We must re-examine Marxism...
Last week, with business dropping rapidly from its end of 1939 peak, the stock market started upwards from its recent doldrums, sprinted a surprising four points in four days. Bulls, to whom most news is good news, argued that the market always anticipates the production trend; that the '39 Wall Street doldrums had called the turn on the new business recession; that last week's sprint meant more capacity operations around the corner. But bears (to whom most news is bad news) remembered the Chrysler trader who failed to outguess the tape. They reasoned that the market...
...Lumber, production has been pacing sales for some time, is now off 13% from the year end peak...