Word: peake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like World's Work, Review of Reviews had its peak of influence and circulation during the War, when Frank Herbert Simonds became its foreign editor. Unlike World's Work-or any other important U. S. magazine-it has been edited and wholly owned for 42 years by its founder. Albert Shaw, 75, has written the editorials in every issue of his magazine with three exceptions: once when he was a guest of the British Government during the War; twice when he was ill. He still commutes occasionally between his Manhattan office and his home at Hastings-on-Hudson...
...excuse of "acquainting readers with life's realities." It published sexy stories and sex pictures to "help tear down false prudery" and "to demonstrate the benefits of physical culture." Scarcely a newspaper, it earned the name "pornoGraphic" and the contempt of decent journalists. Its circulation hit a peak of 350,000, dropped steadily for the past three years...
...million of them lack work because employers, fearing that oldsters are slow and can learn no new tricks, will not hire people over 40. Columbia's Edward Lee Thorndike has demonstrated that this is a misconception. The capacity to learn diminishes very little between 20 years (the peak) and 55. Walter Richard Miles (Yale psychologist) has shown that septuagenarians do things more speedily than the average person...
...Gates Dawes, lately resigned from Reconstruction Finance Corp.'s presidency to assume the chairmanship of his Central Republic Bank & Trust Co. Since his return to Chicago during the Republican Convention, speculation had run high as to why he had resigned from R. F. C. at what seemed like the peak of the corporation's activities...
...Waukegan. On the Lake Michigan waterfront in Waukegan, 111., is the large plant of Johnson Motor Co. which was formed in 1921 to make a 35-lb., 2-h.p. outboard motor. From sales of 3,500 motors in 1922 the company reached a peak of 31.000 in 1929, a figure representing more than half the industry's output. The company now makes five sizes of outboard motors, ranging from the 1½-h.p. single cylinder motor to the 4-cyl., 32-h.p., 116-Ib. Johnson Sea Horse. During the last two years motorboat sales have dropped badly. Last week...