Word: peak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since early last fall, there has been what the President terms a "downturn in our economy." Unemployment, even adjusted for seasonal variation, has increased considerably. Production has dropped almost ten per cent from the December, 1956, peak. Retail purchasing is down and capital investment has been declining steadily since November...
...Bird at Peak. When ready for firing, the whole assembly weighed 65,000 lbs., so the 83,000-lb. thrust of the first-stage rocket motor lifted it off the ground at a fairly fast clip. The first stage burned for 150 seconds. When its fuel was gone, about 60 miles above the earth, most of the Redstone dropped away, leaving only a short section of the nose attached to the spinning bucket. As it zoomed upward at several thousand miles per hour, a gyroscopically controlled device turned the missile's attitude toward the horizontal by blowing jets...
None of Author Goudge's work seems labored; she writes with the spontaneity of a child. Goudge fans think that in her earlier novels-Green Dolphin Street, Pilgrim's Inn-she has already excelled herself, but The White Witch suggests that she has still not reached her peak...
Like sleet out of a grey winter sky, gloomy economic reports pelted out of Washington. The December industrial-production index drooped 7% below the level of December 1956. Personal income fell off in the steepest monthly drop since the alltime peak of last August. Year-end unemployment edged up 200,000 to 3.4 million to make it 5.2% of the labor force, the highest December rate since the recession year...
Hovers over Nasu peak...