Word: peak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rush to buy sent manufacturers' sales in April smashing through their pre-recession peak, reported the Commerce Department last week. Sales reached $30.2 billion v. $29.1 billion in March, and new orders also set a record by climbing $800 million above March. For this reason-and other signs of heartiness in the economy-Commerce Department reported that the recovery is proceeding "at a better-than-seasonal pace and on a broadening scale." But it pointed out that the upward surge of the boom is still ahead: despite a 2% rise in industrial output above pre-recession highs, the rise...
...which was not designed as a truly intercontinental plane. Delivery of the new model will begin in July-and for the airlines it cannot come too soon. Jet travel has caught on so well that the jets are operating at 95% of capacity even before the peak tourist season...
Died. Edward A. Walsh, 78, one of baseball's great pitchers, whose dazzling spitball won 40 games in 1908; of cancer; in Pompano Beach, Fla. Walsh won an average of 24 games a season during his peak years (1906-12) with the Chicago White Sox, pitched a record total of 464 innings in one season, but was so overworked that he faded fast in his early 303. He never made more than $6,500 a year, and although elected to baseball's Hall of Fame in 1946, had to eke out a living on a pittance...
...Like their counterparts in Boston, Philadelphia, Buffalo and St. Louis. Pay scales are still lower in the South, range higher in Cleveland, Los Angeles and Minneapolis-St. Paul, to a peak in San Francisco...
...often preached in filmy white celestial robes but occasionally acted out liturgical tableaux dressed as a policeman, fireman or fisherman. Her carelessness about money was sternly held in check by her mother-business manager, "Ma" Kennedy, an ex-Salvation Army lassie. One May afternoon in 1926, at the very peak of her career, Aimee went swimming in the Pacific off Santa Monica-and disappeared...