Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assembly lines can be made to tick smoothly. Plump, dapper Joe Frazer, optimistic as usual predicted that the Frazer would start coming off the lines in March, the Kaiser, with a front-wheel drive, by the middle of April. By July 1, he expects Willow Run to be in peak production of 1,500 cars...
...hard, and sometimes we reciprocate-not always by mail. For example: a University of Shanghai professor wrote in recently to thank us for a large map of Manchuria which hit him on the head outside the TIME & LIFE Building during the blizzard of paper that marked the peak of the V-J Day festivities...
Nevertheless, the Navy's stars will also be rapidly thinned out. Scheduled to go by year's end are 51 admirals who were recalled to duty after they had already been retired. The Navy hopes by next June to reduce its flag roster from the peak...
...Marine Corps had made no definite plans. Of the 81 generals it had at peak strength, only eight have been retired and only two more are scheduled...
...atomic techniques must first be put on the market. If not, imitations or even improvements will soon appear, and the originals will lose their value. Such an offer made now would catch both the atomic and the peace markets at their peak. And it would, in addition, make emphatic America's desire for peace as expressed in a willingness to sacrifice its own greatest single possession to that...