Word: peake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word from the mountains was nike -victory. The Grammos battle was officially over. Clambering up the stark, grey slope of Grammos' highest peak, weary, tattered Greek soldiers unfurled the blue and white national flag. Some crossed themselves gratefully; others wept...
Died. May de Sousa, 66, light-opera favorite at the turn of the century; of starvation; in a Chicago charity ward. A detective's daughter, she first sang in vaudeville, moved on to Broadway, hit her peak touring Europe in such productions as The Wizard of Oz and The Tenderfoot. She retired in 1918, moved to Shanghai, returned to the U.S. penniless in 1943, and set to work as a scrubwoman...
Back in 1939, unable to sell their higher-priced ($15.75 a dozen and up) output of 100 dozen a week, they desperately turned to making a skirt that would retail for $1. A flood of orders, amounting to 700 dozen on one peak day, showed what could be done on high-volume output with low profit per unit...
...cost of such trains has been heavy; in one year the net working capital of U.S. roads has dropped $450 million to $705,013,000, a 39% decline. But the return has been worth the price. Though passenger traffic is off as much as 50% from its wartime peak, many streamliners are booked solid. In twelve months the Illinois Central Railroad's City of New Orleans grossed its $4,000,000 construction cost; with its sister streamliner, the Land 0' Corn, it had doubled Central's passenger revenues. The gleaming new Pullmans of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas...
...Well. At the peak of the summer driving season, the gasoline shortage feared by many oilmen had failed to show itself. Said Jersey Standard's Economist Courtney C. Brown: barring "unforeseeable trouble," prospects were good for continued adequate supplies of both gasoline and fuel...