Word: peake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hubert's and Avignone Freres, Washington's biggest caterers, each handle up to 700 parties during the season, as many as 14 a day during the December peak. Ridgewell's can supply 200 silver table settings instanter. Hubert's even has Washington's drinking habits well measured-three cases of champagne for every 100 guests. Total costs for a little buffet reception of 1,000 people, including service, flowers, awnings and orchestra, run not less than $15 a head...
Optimism & Pessimism. Production had hardly slipped at all. The FRB index was at 191 for January (1935-39 average: 100), down only four points from the postwar peak last fall. Construction in February was 14% ahead of 1948. The steel industry scheduled its eighth straight week of overcapacity output, and the auto industry was heading for the best monthly production since...
...night. His shirt-sleeved figure has been seen at his office typewriter more than once by Weld Hall residents returning from late dates. His charges, which include veterans in all parts of the University, now number something over 7,000--only 2,000 below the peak of 1946-47. His office is the channel for about ten million dollars a year in government payment for education and subsistence. Although his assistant, Miss Margaret Witt, handles nine-tenths of the routine red tape difficulties familiar to all veterans, there are enough left over to keep him busy six days a week...
Almost from the start Hackett and his companion, Argentine Lieut. Jorge Julio Mottet, circled traps which had claimed the lives of at least 20 explorers since the peak was first climbed (by a Swiss guide named Mattias Zurbriggen) in 1897. After a tramp through desert-like heat at the base, the climbers crawled through a rock-chocked ravine to reach the slopes. Even in the midsummer month of February, clouds can lay a treacherous coat of verglas (glaze ice) on the slopes in less than an hour. Ice or no ice, there is always the danger of an attack...
...bumbling Governor Ingram M. Stainback, onetime lawyer from Tennessee, now calls it "a blot upon Hawaii's good name." Last week he asked the Territorial Legislature to erase the blot by closing out the colony at Kalaupapa. There are now only 248 patients there; at the peak, in 1890, there were 1,100. Compulsory segregation of leprosy patients at Kalaupapa is, said Governor Stainback, "an expensive and useless cruelty ... a survival of a dark age of ignorance and unreasonable fear," since the disease is not highly infectious. Stainback did not say what would happen to the patients...