Word: peake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boom? Bigger than ever, said the Federal Reserve Board last week. Following the summer slump, FRB's production index (1935-39 average: 100) had climbed to a postwar peak of 192 in November...
Last July he tried again, in the pineapple fields. This time he lost, hands down. Hawaiian laborers, who are among the best-paid agricultural labor in the world (average wage: $8.10 a day), did not want to lose 40 to 50 days of peak seasonal employment. Bridges called the strike off after five days. The incident illustrated the paradoxical weakness in Bridges' position. He could cripple the islands' limited economy, or he could starve the islands with a longshoremen's strike. But in the process the workers would hurt themselves...
Tremendous movements of humanity through planes, trains, buses, and automobiles this week will herald the advent of another Christmas. As the holiday draws closer, local vacation crowds will swell till they hit their peak next Wednesday...
With a 15 percent fare increase on interstate coach travel now in effect, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad will meet the heavy rush by providing extra cars and employing special schedules on their peak days Tuesday and Wednesday...
...diminutive size compared to other major trail-entwined slopes in Pico Peak in Rutland, Vermont. There are an alpine lift and a rope tow hauling for two open slopes and one trail. The open slopes, though short, are sleep and difficult, and provide good proving grounds for slalom and schuss techniques...