Word: peak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During World War II, 40,000 workers were turning out military vehicles, and after the war, 30,000 were still at work there trying to fill the nation's pent-up demand for cars. At the peak in the late '40s and early '50s, 55,000 people, most of them Polish Americans, crammed the pin-neat houses pinched together on 30-ft. lots along residential streets like McDougall, Yemans and Poland. Every morning almost the entire working population would trudge off to Dodge Main. Hamtramck was a joyous, clean, democratic, workingman's town that drew Harry...
...design and strike medals for the Games, agreed to supply them at 1978 prices. The designers hit a snag, however, when they submitted their sketches: the Lake Placid Organizing Committee responded with a veto. The reason: the medals' obverse side showed the rolling Adirondack Mountains, but not the peak where one of the committee members owned a farm. The medals were redesigned and the mountains were shifted. The medal winners of 1980 will always have a view of one committeeman's homesite...
...markets in different parts of the world. By week's end gold fetched $640 in New York City, while in Hong Kong it was worth $705, and in London and Zurich $670. The price differentials for silver, which had risen even more spectacularly in recent weeks, to a peak of $50 per oz., were equally extreme. In London the metal closed at $37.50, and in New York at $35.50. In some cities, merchants did a curious trade in selling everything from gasoline to bacon for a mere 5? or 10? per gal. or lb.-just so long as customers...
...employ as justification for his hesitations. Even without it the man evidently would come to resist the impulsiveness and vitality of his young lover. When she finally leaves him, it is not the taboo that drives them apart, but her romantic insistence on ending the affair at its peak, before quarrelsomeness sets...
Silver, which had climbed more sharply than gold during 1979, leaped by $7 per oz., to a peak of $41.50, or a rise of 20%. Then it, too, fell back, with equally extreme gyrations, to some $36.10. Even at that figure, silver was trading for more than gold had been worth at the start of the 1970s...