Word: peak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the McCarthy scare has more than passed its peak in the United States, some branches of the Government, notably the Foreign Service have not yet recovered their peace of mind. The Foreign Service, indeed, has been subjected to a strain which may have had a more damaging affect on its value than the machinations of any individual Senator...
...normal (November-May) annual "blow" season, the acreage of crop and range land damaged by soil-eroding winds in the ten-state area was already three times larger (almost 2,000,000 acres, one-third of them in Kansas) than in the same period last year. Moreover, with the peak of the high-wind season yet to come, some 29 million additional acres-up almost 10 million from December 1955-were "in condition to blow" because of pulverized-soil conditions, depleted soil-moisture reserves, inadequate cover and crop residues...
...Manhattan's Journal of Commerce reported last week. As the Journal figured it, the final 1956 total for U.S. sales to the 20 Latin American republics will run to about $3.7 billion-a hefty 12% above the 1955 mark, and only $20 million or so below the alltime peak reached during the Korean war year of 1951. The U.S.'s five biggest Latin American customers in 1956: Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia and Brazil, in that order...
...missed it by one vote," said Tennessee's Bowden Wyatt when he was told that the American Football Coaches Association had named him Coach of the Year. Sugar Bowl-bound for a New Year's Day game with Baylor, the Volunteers are balanced on the peak of an unbeaten season, and Wyatt is too busy keeping them there to enjoy the honor. "This puts extra pressure on you," said...
...curtail credit buying, everyone in some way felt the effects. Business borrowing costs soared as high as 6% as FRB's discount rate on loans to member banks was raised to 3%, the highest point since the 1930s. Home mortgage rates jumped from 4½% to a peak 6% in some areas. As housing starts slipped to 1,100,000 in 1956, down 200,000 in a year, builders loudly blamed the money pinch. But there were dissenting voices. They argued that another reason for the slide was that the industry had failed to meet the increasing demand...