Word: peake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most nearly reduced to the Indo-China level was Burma, in normal years the world's largest rice exporter. After Goshal's return from the Calcutta conference, a series of uprisings broke out which reached their peak just when Burmese peasants should have been out in the paddy fields gathering the new crop. Last week, as Burma's parties battled for power, and food prices in Rangoon soared, it was doubtful whether Burma this year could even feed herself...
...Milwaukee, Morris Sayre, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, told reporters that he thought inflation had already passed its peak...
...American offered special family rates on the first three "off-peak" days of every week. Last week 744 families (the father pays full fare, wife & children only half) flew in American planes out of New York alone. American figures that the "family package" has boosted its DC-6 load-factor from...
Several factors have combined to drive the number of men living in the College above last year's all-time peak: the graduation of many married students formerly living outside the College, the invulnerability of men for draft during their current year, and the discontinuance of enforced commuting. Coupled with less important changes such as the drop in the mortality rate, these shifts have brought about temporary housing of Freshman in the gym and placed extra men in rooms throughout the College...
Nearly 130 men will be added, either voluntarily or arbitrarily, to present House rolls within the next few weeks, thus forcing the seven Houses to absorb more extra men this year than under 1947's so-called "peak" enrollment...