Word: peake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next period in which business began to take hope of autumn improvement. But in August the two parted company for the rest of the year, for in that month the production index practically ceased rising; then the sudden impact of war sent it zooming skyward to a November peak (preliminary estimate: 125, well above its recovery high, just equaling its all-time 1929 peak...
Trade centre turnover did virtually the reverse; prewar, in mid August it climbed to a peak slightly higher than in January. Threat of war sent it skidding. Then during the "war boom" in production, it fluctuated vigorously without making headway and did not equal its prewar peak till mid November-an indication that during this period the volume of transactions in these centres just about kept pace with proportional increase in inventories...
...various political friends of Ewing's) the States dropped Huey. Subsequently Publisher Thomson's Item and Tribune decided to back him. They stuck with Long and his successors for nine years while the Tribune's circulation soared to 47,817, then relapsed; the Item hit a peak of 67,603 and likewise receded. Meanwhile, Colonel Ewing died. Publisher Thomson tried to buy the States and merge it with his Item. Instead, to his bitter surprise, the Times-Picayune got the States for an afternoon edition...
...self-sufficiency in tin. Phelps Dodge now produces only at the rate of 1,200 tons a year, Argentinian production is only about 1,700 tons a year. U. S. peacetime needs are 6-7,000 tons a month (current needs: 7-12,000 tons). In 1929, at their peak, Bolivian mines were able to produce ore equivalent to only 55% of U. S. tin needs. Main precaution against a tin famine remains the stockpile...
...last six weeks roughly marked the peak of the fall book season. In that time appeared about 50 novels, representing the labor of about 50 man years. TIME has reviewed the best seven. The remainder have given employment to hundreds of publishers' minions. They will give diversion to thousands of readers. Craftwork rather than Art, they fall into several time-smoothed categories...