Word: peake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With world nickel sales up 27% and orders from the United Kingdom at an all-time peak, International Nickel Co. of Canada reported 1934 profits of $18,487,000 against $9,663,000 the year before...
...fall of the pound has helped intensify the gloom but no single cause can be spotted. Business has tapered off very little from the peak of the upswing that began last autumn, yet the stockmarket last week rounded out a long month's decline...
...close connection with the foundation of historical societies in America added much to the reputation of Harvard as an institution of intellectual achievement. His work in the field of accurate research did much to bring the art of history writing to its present scientific peak. In Professor Emerton, Harvard, no more than the world of culture, loses a beloved and imposing figure...
Reason for the party was revival of defunct St. Nicholas which, from a peak circulation of 88,000 in 1922, had tumbled through a succession of ownerships to obscurity. Its circulation fell below 40,000. Title to St. Nicholas was lately acquired by Roy Walker, an Ohioan who sold advertising for ten years for Curtis Publishing Co., went into the publishing business for himself. He bought John Martin's Book, later scrapped it. Also he issued a cookbook for distribution in Woolworth stores which has sold phenomenally. Mrs. David Stern offered her financial support to the revived St. Nicholas...
Mesta makes money as well as machines. Its peak was 1930 when it reported a profit of $2,500,000. More notable, it continued to make profits throughout Depression, touching a low of $327,000 in 1932. Mesta has yet to report for 1934 but in the first half it made $400,000. And in the last half it boosted its dividend, paid a 66% stock dividend and retired $1,000,000 of preferred stock...