Word: peake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lesser star explosions called novae are fairly common. About 40 have been detected since 1900. Nova Herculis, which blazed up in 1934, attracted much attention because it was only about 1,500 light-years from Earth (TIME, Dec. 31, 1934). At its peak one of the twelve brightest stars in the sky, it offered superb opportunities for spectroscopic examination. Such novae throw off tremendously hot shells of gas, then subside irregularly and gradually to something like their former faintness. On the other hand some astronomers believe that supernovae, which fade rapidly, become "neutron stars"-small, dead, dense lumps of matter...
...inch telescope, where its record was observed by famed Edwin Powell Hubble. Because of its great distance the star never approached naked-eye visibility, faded rapidly in late February. But Dr. Hubble's coworker, Dr. Milton LaSalle Humason, took spectroscopic and photometric observations which indicated that at the peak of its long-ago death agony the super-nova was 50 times as hot and 10,000,000 times as bright...
...twelve-month rise without serious interruption, the stockmarket paused for breath. The first anniversary of the Roosevelt bull market passed with no such elated demonstration as that which carried the Dow-Jones industrial stock averages to a flat 300 on the last trading day of 1928. Indeed, the peak of the present rise was registered two weeks before when the averages touched 158.7, a clear gain of 64% from the 1935 low of 96.7. The Dow-Jones railroad stock average showed an even more spectacular gain for the year-85%. Largely because they did not reach their Depression lows until...
...long time none was necessary. Nepotism, always prevalent in Hollywood, was a fixed tradition at Universal City. On frequent trips to his birth place, Carl Laemmle usually returned with relatives who were promptly placed on Universal's payroll. Many were incompetents. None was discharged. The peak of Universal nepotism came in 1929. Carl Laemmle made his son, Carl Jr., general manager of the company, in honor of Junior's 21st birthday. Bird-like little Junior started out brilliantly with All Quiet. Two years ago, he resigned to become an associate producer. Even a change in management...
Westinghouse sales in 1935 footed up to $122,000,000, an increase over the previous year of 33%. Last week in a preliminary report General Electric showed 1935 sales of $208,000,000, an increase of 27%. From the 1929 peak to Depression's low Westinghouse sales declined 69%, GE sales 67%. And while Westinghouse was unable to make any money for three years, GE managed to show a $13,000,000 profit even in 1933. GE's profit for last year was $27,000,000, inspiring a boost in quarterly dividend payments...