Word: peake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immediate accomplishments of this new thing as it affected the automobile industry were indisputable: 1 ) It saved Detroit from being confronted with 200,000 new unemployed. 2) It saved automobile makers from a shutdown at the peak of their most promising production season in four years. 3 ) It saved 250,000 workmen in automobile plants from losing over $1,000,000 a day in wages. 4) It saved the Roosevelt Administration from a terrific setback to its Recovery plans...
Depression has meant a terrific deflation of students' incomes, and a similar deflation of the return upon the University's invested endowments. The increased demand for scholarships has been faced with a dwindling supply of funds. Scholarship funds declined from the peak of $196,000 reached in 1930 to $168,000, a sum which was distributed to 547 of the 1,000 eligible applicants...
...shop motor industry. With automobile manufacturers heading into their best season in years, and profits definitely in sight. Labor's bargaining position was all but ideal. Now if ever the automobile companies could be forced to recognize the A. F. of L. under pain of strike at the peak of production. (2) No less firmly braced were the heads of the automobile industry against allowing their business, whatever the cost, to fall into the clutches of organized labor. With them, too, it was now or never to stand and fight the A. F. of L. Left to themselves both...
Official figures on the evening use of the Widener Library reading room for the first month since it was opened show an average of 61 men an evening, with a peak, attendance of 32. The number of books called for averaged 293, the books kept overnight 91, and the number of men admitted to the stacks...
Such ominous predictions last week accompanied President Roosevelt's determined effort to demobilize the Civil Works program by May 1. Already the CWA payroll had been cut from its peak to 2,609,500. Further reductions were to follow at the rate of 275,000 a week...