Word: peak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catholic-baiting legions are at last on the march in Alabama. Good. By next year, with the anti-Catholic madness reaching its peak, Southern Protestantism will again be revealed for what it is: an obscene collection of bigoted, Bible-clutching morons, the benighted cult of a corrupt and appallingly stupid society...
...bigger and exposes more surface to the heat. Since the amount of hot gas generated is proportional to the area of burning fuel, the gas pressure keeps rising until just before burnout. The effect is that solid-fuel rockets of this type must have superstrong casings to hold the peak pressure, and must thus pay a penalty in weight...
Unless there is a dramatic and unexpected reversal of trends, 1959 will be the worst year for poliomyelitis in the U.S. since 1955, when the Salk vaccine became generally available. With the peak not expected for another month, the U.S. Public Health Service reported last week that polio is almost twice as prevalent this year as last. Latest tallies showed 1,462 cases (956 paralytic) so far in 1959, v. 877 (only 437 paralytic) for the same period in 1958. In the latest week reported, the increase was especially alarming: 257 cases-a 50% jump over the previous week...
...dividends of the growing U.S. economy are being widely and liberally distributed. Reported the Commerce Department last week: personal income in June climbed to an alltime peak of $382.9 billion on an annual basis, up $13.9 billion since January and $25.8 billion since June...
Vita Manga Est. Last week the menthol drive reached its peak of intensity, proclaimed by full-page ads that touted every gimmick that adman can conceive and machine execute. Philip Morris (Marlboro, Parliament) launched Alpine on a national scale, billed it not only as a long, low-tar, lightly mentholated cigarette with "the longest filter yet," but as one of the few cigarettes since Camel to come in a package with a picture on it (of an Alpine mountain). Brown & Williamson, whose "Thinking Man" Viceroys thoughtlessly slumped 20% in the first quarter, clawed back with two new filters: the mentholated...