Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer of 1943, after Mussolini had become the prisoner of Italy's Badoglio Government, it was Skorzeny whom Hitler personally assigned to rescue the Duce. After weeks of dime-thriller spy work he located Mussolini in an inaccessible hotel on the 9,560-ft. peak of the Gran Sasso in the Abruzzo Mountains northeast of Rome. He led an assault which reached the hotel by crash-landing gliders against the mountainside. Skorzeny reported: "Duce, the Führer has sent me as a token of his loyal friendship." They flew out together in a tiny plane which...
...Jhelum front is a succession of giant hills which must be taken in turn. There are men on these hilltops who have been without baths and hot meals for three months, supplied by coolies who have to crawl up the mountain. On one 11,000-foot peak it takes a coolie 24 hours to carry up three mortar shells, and the wounded must be carried down on a man's back...
Raises Compounded. The most painful . rise of all came jn food, the one item that housewives might have expected to drop, in view of bumper crops in prospect. But damand was also up, thanks to civilian employment, which had reached a peak of 61,296,000 in June, 1,217,000 more than ever before. Thus, the price of meat in Kansas City soared to a local record of $40.50 a hundred pounds for beef steers, and a world record of $34.25 for feeder (i.e., still-to-be-fattened) steers...
Steady Beat. The American Bankers Association felt the nation's credit pulse, found the beat normal. Although total consumer credit stood at a record $14,000,000,000, "it is far below the prewar peak in terms of national income," said the bankers. Best news: installment credit on automobiles, refrigerators, etc. still lagged $600,000,000 behind the 1941 peak...
...Peak. Despite the price cuts early this year (later restored), General Electric Co. netted a record $54,602,339 on sales of $772,761,792 in the first six months, highest in its history...