Word: peak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there are signs that the housing tide has not reached its peak. The number of mortgage-insurance applications to the FHA is so great that the agency has had to revise its estimate for the current fiscal year from 962,500 to "well over one million" unit applications...
Half a century ago, rough and ready U.S. journalism boiled with such competition that Bostonians could take their daily pick of twelve daily English-language papers, Chicagoans of ten, New Yorkers of 20. By 1916, the alltime peak year, no less than 2,461 dailies were in business. By last week, when the American Newspaper Publishers Association met for its annual convention in New York, the total number of U.S. dailies had dropped to about 1,750. And in only 76 U.S. communities were there dailies in competition...
American Motors earned $2.10 for its second fiscal quarter, boosting first-half earnings to $5.66 per share v. $1.25 during the same period last year. For the first time since 1954, American returned to a quarterly cash dividend program, declared a 60? payment. With the peak sales season coming up, President George Romney said he "anticipates an even higher level" of production, sales and earnings...
...knows why the '59 Buick has done poorly. Automen guess that it is too radically styled, too low and hard to get into, has a cramped back seat. In any case, Rollert starts with one big advantage over Ragsdale. Ed Ragsdale took over when Buick was at its peak. Ed Rollert's Buick has hardly any place...
...succeed-for a time. A poor provincial schoolteacher, he rose to lead the Taiping Rebellion, which ravaged China between 1851 and 1864, and cost the lives of an estimated 20 million people. Since Hung was a professing if distinctly unorthodox Christian, who ruled some 30 million subjects at the peak of his power, he has left behind him one of the most tantalizing ifs in history: If he had toppled the Manchu Dynasty and mounted the Dragon Throne, would China be Christian today...