Word: peake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Debt was stabilized at just above a billion dollars. The War with its military expenses, its loans to Allied governments, sent the Debt up to a peak...
Profits. In 1929 profits began well for motor makers but dwindled after the peak of production was passed in April. General Motors' dividend payments for the year came to $166,000,000 as against $174,000,000 in 1928. Continental Motors, supplying engines for Durant, Jordan, Reo and Windsor (Moon), last fortnight passed its dividend. Accessory and body companies, reporting tremendous profits for the first few months, are expected to show deficits in the last quarter. In Hayes Body the earnings drop was so precipitate that last fortnight the directors voted back a stock dividend they had declared although...
Ishbel, apple-cheeked daughter of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain, received a telegram from Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada saying that as a Christmas present a 10,000-ft. peak near Banff was henceforth to be known as Mount Ishbel...
...hidden beneath the ocean's surfaces are hills and dales, mountains, canyons, plateaus, plains. Many are known-Telegraph Plateau between Newfoundland and Ireland whereupon 14 of 21 North Atlantic cables lie, Fleming Deep (5½ mi. down) off Japan and the Philippines, Merriam Ridge off Chile and Hayes Peak off California (both nearly 2 mi. high). Last week came news of another peak, 1½ mi. high, discovered 300 miles northwest of Hawaii by the nonmagnetic brigantine Carnegie shortly before she exploded in the Samoan Islands (TIME, Dec. 9). Name of the new peak is to be, unless controverted...