Word: peak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another newcomer to the Met, the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's Dimitri Mitropoulos. With his long arms and shiny bald head making him look like a gnome in the orchestra pit, he turned the Met orchestra into a raging, powerful instrument that swept the action along at peak excitement...
...Reid, who has scrappily run the paper since her husband died in 1947, last week was "very optimistic." In 1946 the paper's profit reached a peak of $1,000,000 after taxes, on a total income of $20 million. Rising costs cut profits to $347,000 by 1949. In 1951 and 1952, said Mrs. Reid, the paper was "slightly on the edge of the red." Last year the Trib counted on a $200,000 profit, but the eleven-day newspaper strike cost it more than $500,000, tumbling the paper into its biggest postwar deficit. This year...
...News, in the words of its late great founder, Captain Joe Patterson, "was built on legs." But it was more than legs that made it the biggest (peak circ. 2,402,346) and one of the most profitable papers in the U.S. Captain Patterson also had an unerring eye for the important, interesting news story to sandwich in between the tales of sensation, told them all in a crisp, flip way under such headlines as: 3,000 BOOLA BOO BROWDER AT YALE...
...Journal-American, the first daily started by William Randolph Hearst himself and now the home paper of W. R. Hearst Jr., is the biggest afternoon paper (circ. 669,700). But its circulation is 8% off its peak, and its ad linage last year was down 17%. The Journal's screaming red headlines and crusading zeal once appealed to New York's immigrant population, but this formula no longer works so well. Though it has cut its staff to trim expenses and runs giveaway contests (Cashword Puzzles, Daily Double Racing Game, Lucky Safety Cards) to boost circulation, the Journal...
...turkeys so that they can be shoved into the oven with little work beforehand, the Swansons changed turkey from a Thanksgiving dish to a year-round habit, thereby doubling U.S. turkey-eating. Last week, at their newest $2,000,000 plant at Modesto, Calif., the Swansons were getting into peak production of a new product: a pre-stuffed frozen turkey. In four months production has jumped 50%, to 15,000 birds a day. Last week, by adding a night shift, the Swansons boosted output to 18,000 (about 350,000 Ibs.) daily, and they still cannot catch up with demand...