Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quietly the railroads were urging that: 1) the Office of Defense Transportation relax its ban on sleeping-car runs of less than 450 miles; 2) the Army turn back a few of the 895 sleepers grabbed from the railroads in July, when troop movements were at their peak...
...much slack. Government and private business analysts agreed, in the main, on the immediate trend: business in general would slide downward for about six months, then climb. The optimistic guesstimaters were almost unanimous: 1947 and 1948 will see national income on a high level - perhaps about $135 billion (wartime peak: $165 billion...
Lockheed for Leadership. Lockheed felt fine and said so. It had been able to trim its peak payroll of 80,000 to 38,000 before the end of the war, has laid off 1,000 since. When production of its famed P-38 Lightning was ended, it shifted the workers to its new 550 m.p.h. jet fighter, the Shooting Star. Though cut back, Lockheed will still turn out 40 a month, biggest production of any Army fighter. On top of its backlog in military orders, they have a whopping $150,000,000 in civilian orders for their shark-sleek transport...
...workers, then hired some 5,000 back. By last week, Grumman was shaken down to production of two Navy pursuit ships, the Bearcat and the Tigercat. They still have Navy orders for production at a rate of 75 a month. This was far below Grumman's war peak of 658 planes a month but well above their best peacetime volume...
Professor Lehman, 56, has long devoted himself to a very special study: at what age are man's creative powers at their peak? Talented men, he reports, keep up the quantity of their output fairly well until about 50. But the peak of greatness occurs much earlier. Although there are many individual exceptions, most of the great operas, novels, paintings, scientific discoveries, etc. have been produced by men just rounding 30. This, he finds, coincides with the age at which men sire most children and break most sports records...