Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over Lac Leman the sun set in splendor. Mont Blanc's icy peak changed from red to grey to blue, finally faded into the falling night. The moon rose. From an old-fashioned paddle steamer, 400 UNRRA employes (who had taken time out from their Geneva conference for a boat ride) watched the grandiose spectacle in awed fascination...
...Federal Reserve Board's industrial production index for July was estimated at 172 or 173, two or three points above June's postwar peak...
...inevitably as warm weather breeds poliomyelitis, polio breeds panic. This year's epidemic, now nearing its peak, is bad-50% greater than last year-and worst since 1934 (latest federal statistics); San Antonio, Denver and Minneapolis have been especially hard hit. But the U.S. Public Health Service has pointed out that the cases (2,596 so far) are scattered, and that the epidemic seems unlikely to take on menacing proportions...
There was little hope that Army discharges, now past their peak, would supply the needed men. Nor would the pool of unemployed; it was already down to 2,000,000. The hard fact was that the U.S. could not boost production much higher if it needed many more hands to do it. But it could if those at work did a better job. The hope now was for increased labor efficiency, like post...
Wheat, corn and oats also dropped, along with butter. But old king cotton just kept rolling up. At 35? a pound, cotton futures were up 25% in six weeks to a 23-year peak. Textile men expected some of the increase to be passed on to consumers before long...