Word: peake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grafted on wild rubber roots, and boughs of still another variety grafted on the trunks. Each tree should produce many times as much rubber as a wild tree. Within a few years Belterra may produce, nearly a third as much rubber as the whole Amazon valley did at its peak...
...plates last week his practiced eye discovered a monstrous star that should not have been there. It was a supernova, an obscure star that had exploded suddenly. When Dr. Mayall photographed it first, its "absolute brilliance" was equal to two million suns. It had probably faded from a peak a few weeks ago of four million suns. If any planets had been revolving around that unstable star, they were certainly vaporized by now into scattered atoms...
...Dutch engineers re-created the old engine with stainless steel and aluminum bronze parts where they would do the most good. They improved the regenerator and increased the pressure of the "working" air to 50 atmospheres (735 Ibs. per square inch) at peak. They tinkered hardly at all with the original idea of the 19th Century Scotsmen. When they got through, they had engines that weigh only 10 to 20 Ibs. per horsepower and are about as efficient as diesels. Their simplicity makes them cheap to maintain, and they burn almost any fuel, from oil to coal or corncobs...
Would U.S. buyers continue to foot the bills? With employment at an all-time peak, most sellers thought they would. But in the entertainment and resort businesses, which are usually the first to feel price resistance, there were contrary signs. In Chicago last week, row upon row of empty seats forced Balaban & Katz to slash some prices almost 50% in its six Loop moviehouses. The Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce complained that many visitors were so intent on cutting expenses that they slept in their cars overnight...
...golf course that it displaced. The 4,900-acre airport (on Long Island, 38 minutes' drive from Manhattan's Airlines Terminal) covers an area as large as Manhattan Island from 42nd Street to the Battery; its 35 all-weather krypton flash approach lights (3,300,000,000 peak beam candlepower) are the brightest ever made by man. Idlewild's ten miles of paved runways (six strips completed, one under construction) will be able eventually to handle upwards of 60 aircraft landings and take-offs an hour...