Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these rosy forecasts, warned Small, were made on the assumption that "production would not be seriously interrupted by external causes." Such "external causes" as strikes and price squabbles had already hit auto production so hard that it may not reach its peak until late 1946. Then, Small estimates that it will employ 569,000 workers (twice the 1939 level...
...Chungking and beyond, but now they could follow a more southerly course over the "low-Hump," by way of Myit-kyina. By year's end, Air Forces personnel in the India-China Division of the Air Transport Command will be down to around 9,000, from a peak of 35,000 (including 4,712 pilots...
Unofficial estimates were that 3,000 Allied transport and tactical aircraft had been lost among those jagged peaks. But for this price, the U.S. had backed China (and U.S. units in China) with invaluable aid: 78.000 tons went over the Hump in the peak month of July...
...predicted Christmas-tree cutters in the Pacific Northwest, which furnishes a third of the nation's trees. Moreover, wholesale prices will be about half the 1942 wartime peak. Retail tree sellers, as usual, will charge what the traffic will bear...
...fire lookout peering from Watchman Peak saw the calm blue water, 1,850 ft. below, emit a giant belch. A cloud of smoke - or dust-filled gas - billowed out of the deep water, rose high...