Word: peak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...profits are surging. Standard of New Jersey, the world's largest oil company, last week reported record profits of $272 million for the third quarter, up 3% from the same period last year. Mobil, Cities Service and Standard of Ohio also set profit records. Gulf's alltime peak earnings of $122 million for the quarter were 20% higher than last year. Best gain of all the majors was registered by Atlantic-Richfield, whose nine-month profits climbed 32%, to $83 million. For 1966 as a whole, Standard & Poor's estimates that the industry's net will...
...house at Valley Stream, N.Y., recalls Franey, "I was furious." His gall was on account of Gallic upbringing. Born 46 years ago in Burgundy, Franey began an apprenticeship as a kitchen boy at 14, learned to cook at Paris' Drouant restaurant (two Michelin stars), reached his culinary peak as chef of New York's Pavilion (which would undoubtedly rate three stars if Michelin graded U.S. establishments). Like Friend and Fellow Chef René Verdon, who quit the White House last year after he was ordered to use frozen vegetables, Franey had always had a Gallic horror of anything...
...Connor explains that he does not want to "peak too fast," but his campaign plainly suffers from haphazard organization. Moreover, he has to contend with the candidacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., who became the Liberal Party's gubernatorial choice after losing the Democratic nomination, and is sure to siphon off votes that would otherwise have gone to O'Connor. To compound O'Connor's woes, Rockefeller's progressive record, notably an increase in the state minimum wage to $1.50, has cost the Democrats some of their customary labor support. The 250,000-member Building...
Less Than Korea? The cost of Viet Nam may seem small in relation to the overall economy: total defense spending amounts to only 8% of the gross national product, less than the average ratio during the 1950s and little more than half the Korean war peak of 14½%. Yet, unlike the Korea war, which hit when the U.S. still had plenty of production slack and more than 5% unemployment, the Viet Nam war is an added burden on a substantially full-employment, full-production economy that has been expanding for 51 years...
...Mike White, Drummer Terry Clarke and Bassist Don Thompson-rallied with some surprises of their own. Turning to Handy's Scheme No. I, they erupted in a dreamy and delirious atonal free-for-all, creating a great whirl of sound, like a radio with the dial spinning at peak volume. Handy, looking like a Chinese Pope in his foot-high brocade hat, sketched high looping solos that trembled and fluttered. When it was over, the sellout crowd of 7,000 turned on a standing ovation that would have drowned out that...