Word: peak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Punjab, hunting hardy wild mountain barley for the horses and men of their cavalry, and at home the sport of mountaineering kept abreast of political and military needs. The Japanese alps crawled with amateur climbers. Biggest goal of civilian climbers has always been to scale a major Himalayan peak...
...Mandel Brothers department store, last week summed up the mood of many businessmen. Despite the slump in auto sales, tight money and sagging farm income, the nation's economy was actually holding up fine. Industrial production steadied at 142, only two points off December's peak. But caution was the watchword...
From Block to Chip. Although it is the youngest of rubber's Big Four (after Goodyear, U.S. Rubber, Goodrich), Firestone is the world's second biggest rubber company, just a shade behind Goodyear, with 1955 sales of $1.1 billion and a peak profit of $55.4 million. Firestone's start in 1900 was as hard as the jolting, solid-rubber tires of that day. It had to buck furious price competition and inflexible patent monopolies, waited three years before turning its first profit. Then it moved fast. Founder Harvey S. Firestone Sr. developed one of the first pneumatic...
...these factors are important, and they all underscore the basic point that Cambridge professional drama has undergone a fundamental re-orientation from previous years. In 1951, at the peak of the Brattle's success, one New York producer said, "There are two kinds of people in the theater today: those who like Mike Todd and those who like the Brattle." At long last, however, the plans for the Festival seem to indicate that the men formerly associated with the Brattle have discovered that maybe they can at least learn something from such men as Todd...
Fall. Piasecki and associates still owned 23.7% of the 471,391 shares of outstanding common stock, and in an attempt at a comeback, began soliciting proxies for last week's annual meeting. Once again, they were rebuffed. The company, Berlin reported, was doing better than ever: 1955 peak profits of $1,550,937, a husky backlog of nearly $150 million, first-quarter sales well ahead of '55. Piasecki tried to raise points of order and ask questions, but got nowhere. He attempted to increase his bloc's directorships from three to five on the 13-man board...