Word: peake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...76th Congress. In the next twelve-month the Treasury's deficit may well reach 4,400 millions and shoot the National Debt up over 41 billions-six billions greater than the figure of $35,026,000,000 which Franklin Roosevelt anticipated 17 months ago would be the peak of U. S. debts...
This brightness was manifested at the peak of a stellar explosion. The star has now subsided to 1,000,000 times the sun's luminosity...
Next day the surge continued, with Allied Chemical leading the way with a $9 gain. On volume of 1,457,000 shares, the industrial averages went through the previous rally peak of 121 to 121.34. To Dow Theorists, of whom there are an immense number (TIME, June 20), this was enormously significant-if the rail averages confirmed the industrials by breaking through their previous high of 23.5, it meant a decisive change of trend. Two days later, rails, highballing after industrials, went to 24.9. To Robert Rhea, leading exponent of the Dew Theory, this was "more bullish than anything seen...
Principal Japanese fear was that the flooding Yellow would reach a long arm southward to the Yangtze, itself within five feet of overflowing and not yet at its mid-summer peak from melting mountain snows. Between them the two swollen rivers could completely swamp the Japanese offensive on Hankow, which was not going too well in any case. Early in the week the invaders had taken a giant stride nearer Hankow by capturing Anking, capital of Anhwei Province. When they ordered the U. S. Government to clear the 200-mile stretch of the Yangtze from Wuhu to Kiukiang for their...
Twenty years ago, when gentlemen wore starched cuffs and ladies hid in corsets, musical shows were romantic, exotic and historical. The best of them, known as operettas, became minor classics and were repeatedly performed by stock light-opera companies throughout the U. S. During the peak years of U. S. operetta (1910-20), four composers dominated the field: Irish-born Victor Herbert (Naughty Marietta, etc.), Bohemian-born Charles Rudolph Friml (Katinka), Hungarian-born Sigmund Romberg (In Blossom Time), and Manhattan-born Jerome David Kern (Sally, Show Boat...