Word: peake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pullman travel in 1929 took its worst slump in five years. Though the company operated more cars (8,842), more miles (1,206,767,059) than ever before the number of passengers (33,434,268) fell off 2,638,943 from the five-year peak. The average Pullman passenger traveled 420 miles on each trip last year, 25 miles further than he did in 1925. But where 13 people rode in each Pullman car in 1925, only 11 people rode in 1929. Result: many more empty upper berths...
Credulous laymen gasped when Dexter Fellowes was quoted as having said: "I snapped up 67 of the choicest Alps in the country, scattered from the coast range to the White Mountains. ... I started in California and intended to sneak all the best peaks before the trade got wind of my intentions, but before I had cleaned up the coast range the news was out. In the Sierra Nevadas the prices jumped from $50 a peak to $1,000 and I had to play one mountain against another to get them for anything like a reasonable figure...
...Battalions of buffoons, boy. Broadcasting button-bursting brusqueries. Bliths boobies. Bubbling with blarney. Banish bile. Beggar bulletins; Bandy badinage-" Newsmen knew that although Dexter Fellowes had been engaged in neither peak sneaking nor animated alliteration, indeed had not even been interviewed, he was grateful for notices given his Circus in the Herald Tribune...
...which he got back, Adman Winters put in motion self-propelling publicity vehicle extremely simple to operate. He thought $5,000,000 worth of publicity would wonders for the Cause. What the effects would be on Prohibition and on Life's circulation (now down to 137,000 its 1919 peak of 255,000) remained be seen. One effect on the magazine editorially was to give point to the Prohibition jokes which Life began publishing with redoubled fervor...
...Dames, and welcomed students with cordial informality to the Sunday afternoon receptions. But more than the graces of the temporary hostess were hers: she made the President's House a center of hospitality throughout the year for the University and for the legion of visitors, whose number reached its peak at Commencement. She was accustomed to visit students at the Infirmary, and her interests in charitable undertakings outside Harvard were widespread...