Word: peake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to the Census Bureau, 2% of the total U. S. population was jobless. Mississippi and South Dakota tied for low score with only ½% of their inhabitants unemployed. Joblessness reached its peak in Michigan where 3.3% could not find work. New York, with the largest jobless list (364,617), was 2.9% idle. Computations of unemployment on the basis of total populations have been seriously criticized on the ground that they do not show the true relation between workers and those seeking work. Census estimators unofficially figured that the number of unemployed was 5.2% of the gainful workers-that...
...pilgrims, traveled by special train last week from Manhattan to the foot of the Castle Crags, near Redding, northern California. They reached there on Mr. Macfadden's 62nd birthday. While the pilgrims watched, dignitaries of the Redding Chamber of Commerce disclosed a bronze plaque fixed to the central peak, and unveiled a $70,000 airplane beacon (which Mr. Macfadden had paid for). The plaque designated the mountain as Macfadden Peak (TIME, July 7) "in recogni- tion of the public services of Bernarr Macfadden, apostle of health, and in honor of his spectacular influence in arousing the nation...
...Peak of Army ambition is to become Chief of Staff; of ambition in the Marine Corps, to be Commandant. On Nov. 20 the office of Chief of Staff becomes vacant when age (64) forces the retirement of General Charles Pelot Summerall. The office of Marine Corps Commandant has been empty since the death last month of Maj.-General Wendell Cushing Neville. Last week President Hoover ended much muffled excitement within the services by picking two new chiefs...
Cool Reason. When agitation against Soviet trade reached its peak, a breath of cool reason from the White House blew on the hotheads. President Hoover declared that the U. S. would not discriminate against Russia in enforcing the tariff law. Politics and economics were to be kept separate. Said a Voice that sounded like the President...
...party of Great St. Bernard monks traveled slowly last week toward the Swiss-Italian mountain border. Their large, patient dogs trotted ahead. In their comfortable hospice at St. Bernard pass, they had heard of a woman lost in a snowstorm on Barraston Peak, 9,725 ft. high. That she was an anti-Fascist refugee they may not have known, would not have cared. Important to them, dedicated to saving human life, was the fact that she was alone, a stranger to the bewildering ways of the great white Alps. At once they had packed themselves with supplies...