Word: peake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...survey, 167 showed increases in August over July; 99 showed decreases; and in 138 no change of price occurred. The Labor Department indices are based on the 1913 average as 100. At the Armistice, the general index number stood at 203. By May, 1920, it reached its peak for all time at 247. During 1923, the index reached its high point at 159 in March and April; it then declined to 150 in August, rallied to 154 in September, and slumped again to 151 in December. This year the high point was reached at 152 in February; a decline then...
...encouraging indication that business is not, on the whole, as bad as it is sometimes painted, was furnished by figures of freight car loadings for the week ending Aug. 2. The previous "peak" of freight traffic in this country for 1924, measured by carloading statistics, had been during the week ending Mar. 1, when 945,049 cars were loaded. From that point, loadings declined until for the week ending July 5 they were only 759,942. From that point a great recovery has been seen. The next week the loading figure leaped upward to 910,415, and, after advancing steadily...
...Professor William W. Watts, President of the Geology section, declared that we are probably passing our peak of oil production. He suggested that in the future we may tap the internal heat of the earth as well as coal and waterpower. This may be done by deep mines or by taking heated gases from volcanic areas as is now being tried in Italy...
...official dispatches from Lieut. Col. E. F. Norton, the new leader, have been published by The London Times and The New York Times. Written from the base camp on Rongbuk Glacier, May 18, they gave no intimation that members of the party had any immediate likelihood of attaining the peak. Indeed, tentative starts by two parties which had established advance camps were ruined by frightful storms, temperatures of 22 degrees below zero, injuries, illness, death among the native helpers and the latters' fear and reluctance to go on. At the time of the dispatch, the whole, party was back...
...peak in the faith-healing career of Rev. Robert B. H. Bell, of Denver, was reached last week at a noon service in old St. Paul's Chapel on lower Broadway, Manhattan. Countless dozens went away, saying they were cured. By their own testimony the blind saw, the deaf heard, the dumb spoke, the maimed walked. A little cross-eyed girl threw away her glasses...