Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some $3,000,000 in its own stock, Hunt bought out California Conserving. This deal, Hunt's fourth and biggest packing company purchase in three years, made it the West Coast's biggest food-processing company. It has 16 canning plants (employing some 10,000 packers at peak season), about 70 products (including tomato sauce, canned fruits, vegetables and jellies, frozen foods), expects to gross at least $35,000,000 a year...
...Public Be Damned. With a rueful bow to the powerful cotton-bloc lobby, the Department of Agriculture last week lifted the parity price for raw cotton to a new high of 21.58? a Ib.-the dizziest peak since 1920. The Department was forced to boost the price under the Bankhead Amendment, which requires adjustment of the parity price. Uultimately (and at pyramided price increases) this sop to cotton growers' inefficiency will be passed on to the consumer...
Rated far higher than last year's team, the Jumbos have been rounding into peak form for several weeks. Sparked by the brilliant passing of George Feldman and by Billy Irwin's hard running. Lew Manley's boys have already racked up a 14 to 6 upset over the Coast Guard Academy team and bowed comfortably to a powerful Yale machine. HARVARD TUFTS Swegan, le le. Rohrs Fisher, lt lt. Gale Foster, lg lg. Brncker Faber, c c. Rautenberg Dewey, rg rg. Owens Pierce, rt rtg. Hartman Perkins, re re. Barnhart Tennant, qb qb. McNeil Flymn, lhb lhb. Fledman Fritts...
Beckoned by special advertisements in Rio's newspapers, 150 relatives, friends and gawkers boarded a special train which Gabriella had provided. On Corcovado's peak, while the crowd waited an hour for Gabriella to arrive (by limousine), a vendor did a bang-up business in sandwiches and bananas. Then the cloud curtain parted. A brilliant sun laid Rio bare and dazzling, 2,300 ft. below. Madame Lage strode on stage. Beneath the statue of Christ the Redeemer, a priest intoned a short service. In 15 minutes, it was all over...
...cattle that arrived last week (highest number since February 1942). But unless the packers can round up thousands of their old employes who threw down their knives and cleavers for higher pay in other industries when war began, they will be in trouble when the cattle run reaches its peak, some time in October...