Word: peak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ironically, even the earliest painters of the West were recording an already vanishing era. The bustling scene of the stockaded fur-trading post at Fort Laramie was painted by Alfred Jacob Miller in 1837, when the Rocky Mountain fur trade had already passed its peak. Paris-trained Miller's paintings of a fur trappers' rendezvous, done with blue-tinted mountains in the romantic manner of Delacroix, are the only surviving pictorial records of the mountain men's great annual blowouts of drinking, fighting, "squaw doin's" and trading. The Swiss painter Charles Bodmer, first artist...
...material for The Deserter, he commandeered a sergeant, drummer and soldier, plied them with ale and tobacco for two days. Morland sold well, but often he could not wait for purchasers to leave his studio before uttering three loud "huzzahs" and heading straight for the nearest pub. At the peak "of his career, Morland, only 28, found himself ?4,000 in debt. Morland's life became an unending struggle to keep out of debtors' prison. To meet his creditors' and dealers' demands, he stepped up his potboiling output to one and two paintings a day, filled...
Vermont: Brattleboro, Hogback, 4 to 15, less than 1 powder, partly cloudy, good; Rutland, Pico Peak, 12 to 25, 4 powder, clear, good to excellent; Stowe, Mansfield, 31 to 50, 2 powder, clear, excellent...
West Germany. The stock price index for West Germany's eight stock exchanges last week hit a new postwar peak of 172, up 85% in a year, the biggest rise of any country. Helped by the prospect of rearmament and the lifting of extremely heavy taxes on sales of stock held less than a year (new time limit: three months), German stock prices reflected the extent of West Germany's boom. Biggest gainers: Casella Chemicals, up 160% to $112 a share; Erin Bergbau (mining), up 375% to $85; Beteiligungs A. G. Ruhrort (shipping...
...cuts in defense spending were due. Farm income had been falling for two years, and the Administration intended to dump the rigid-support prices that had lessened the slide but had also created history's most gigantic pile of food surpluses. On top of that, after years of peak production, many an economist was sure that...