Word: peak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reservations every weekend last year, he said, but now he is turning down only 400. It is meaningless to talk about recession unless we consider what the economy is receding from, and where it stands in relation to the past. At the present it is receding from the highest peak in our economic history; and even now it remains at a record high, compared to the level of previous years...
...Willis C. Armstrong, director of the State Department's Office of International Resources. Because Canada is also affected by U.S. restrictions, Canada's Ambassador to Venezuela joined the talks. Some of the facts: ¶ Of the 14% drop-off in Venezuelan oil production since the Suez-crisis peak of 2,900,000 bbl. a day, the slump in the world market accounted for about 10%, U.S. voluntary restrictions for only 4%. ¶ In the same period, politically powerful Texas' output has dropped 18%. ¶ Crude prices in the U.S. have shaded off 10? to 25? from...
Dean Pike's story may be "Pike's Peak" to you and others, but it's pique to many of us who hate to see elevated to an exemplary pinnacle a man who has failed in his first marriage and who, as bishop, will be the dispenser of the increasingly popular institution of annulment to those members of the clergy and laity who want to find a convenient loophole through which to chuck their original spouses, so as to take on new ones that are more attractive or advantageous...
...peak of stage management was achieved by Red China. Hundreds of thousands lined the roads as Sukarno passed; schoolchildren paraded, youth groups cried "Hidup Bung Karno!" Flow ers and confetti and drums and songs greeted his every appearance. Chou En-lai personally showed him factories and bridges. After Russia, Sukarno had observed dubiously: "One can see the price of their achievement in the faces of their people." But here were Communists who smiled...
...that the U.S. Commerce Department reported January sales ahead of a year ago. All told, said Commerce, U.S. retailers did $15.5 billion worth of business last month to start off 1958 with the greatest selling spree in history and a new record 5.4% better than last year's peak...