Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...armies had given him the city of Antung. His people paraded, ate "longevity noodles," displayed a million photographs and set off a billion firecrackers. In recently starving Hunan Province, his statue would soon surmount a mountain peak. Over Nanking, formations of Chinese airforce planes spelled out "six ten longevity...
...back in hope of higher prices. OPA had been required to adjust the price of cotton goods upward every month, in line with the rise in raw cotton. This month, for the first time in months, OPA has not had to raise the price. Now, in fear that the peak had been passed, manufacturers were disgorging...
Viewing the Republican election victory as reflecting "for the most part" natural public resentment toward government controls during a period of peak business activity, and a desire to change an administration so long in power, Seymour E. Harris, professor of Economic, yesterday predicted a "general economic recession during the next year and a serious depression in anywhere from two to four years." The depression, he claimed, would come during a period of Republican control, and the people will demand government action and receive...
Many anthropologists believe that Man developed from a small, feeble ancestor. Gradually he grew bigger until he reached his present peak. But last week Dr. Ralph von Koenigswald, Dutch paleontologist, pressed a new theory. He thinks that Man grew gigantic a million years ago, then shrank to his present size...
...continued to fall, although more slowly. Never under control, cotton prices had zoomed up to a 26-year high of 39.78? a lb., thanks to the war and the fact that 1) this year's U.S. crop is the smallest in 25 years and 2) textile mills, in peak production, have been using up cotton at 150% of the peacetime rate. But it was only a question of time till cotton buyers and speculators who had spread themselves too thin realized that the comparatively small U.S. carryover from this year (7,500,000 bales) would nevertheless be ample...