Word: peak
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...come before the proposed new college and library, however. The first step toward the goal of one desk per room was the reduction of incoming freshman classes from 1,150 to 1,000 despite greatly increased applications for admissions. This was much less than the veteran swelled post-war peak of some 7,500 college students, but resident fraternity houses had disappeared during the war to leave the colleges and freshman dorms still over-crowded when the veterans left...
Waiting for the trip home, Columbine's commander, Lieut. Colonel William G. Draper, who flew Ike at SHAPE, kept his eight-man crew in peak sharpness. They flew around Denver at least four hours a week (minimum: 30 hours monthly), made at least one weekly round trip to Washington at the 13,000-to-15,000-ft. altitude planned for taking the President home. "A flying plane," said Pilot Draper, "is a safe plane...
Negro papers, such as the Pittsburgh Courier, biggest local Negro weekly in the U.S., are switching to tabloid form and a broader news policy in an attempt to regain circulation (the Courier has plummeted to a little more than half its 1948 peak of 358,000). While some Negro publishers still make a fat living, they generally lack capital to modernize plants and beef up skimpy staffs...
...member of the larger community in which he is rapidly winning a place. For example, Our World, one of the glossiest Negro magazines, has frequently featured articles on Negro life in Africa and other parts of the world. Last week, after dropping nearly 100,000 circulation since its 1952 peak of 251,599, Our World Publishing Co. went bankrupt...
...Steel, No. 1 steelmaker, earned $267,506,943, or 93% ahead of last year, while Bethlehem Steel, in second place, hit its peak with $122,689,308, well above the previous peak of $93,525,000, set in 1953. Other record-setters: Sylvania Electric Products, with $9,556,210, 55% over last year; American Can, with $28,932,161, up 18%; Alcoa, with $55.779.754, 71% over 1954; Vanadium Corp., with $42,516,191, up 59%; Libbey-Owens-Ford, with...