Word: peake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first three months of 1947 were at an annual rate of $17,500,000,000-some 10% more than in last year's booming fourth quarter. The rate declined in the second quarter, tut only to $16,500,000,000, still higher than any other year's peak...
...time, though, has Dartmouth hilarity reached the peak it attained...
More seersucker jackets came out of dark closest recesses yesterday as Cambridge continued to swelter through the warmest autumn week in local history. Boston weather bureau officials envisioned no relief for three or four days, although temperatures will probably not climb back to the record-breaking peak of 83 degrees on Saturday...
Nylons & Bars. He won his first-and only-world championship with the Yankees, whose purchase he engineered in 1945 at a bargain price of about $3,000,000. With fashion shows, free nylons, plushy bars and season tickets, he boosted attendance to a major-league peak of nearly 2,300,000 in 1946. MacPhail said he sold out for $2,000,000 (his ex-partners would neither confirm nor deny it), which would leave him a net profit for the three years of at least...
...Sell. But the others, notably Capitol Records, Inc. (TIME, May 12) and RCA Victor, are coming up fast. This week and in the next three weeks, the industry will issue about 25 new albums for the Christmas trade, a new peak. Records have changed greatly since those early days of Mother Goose (whose rhymes are still the No. 1 sellers). The accent now is on handsome $3-and-up albums, which many a parent has found surprisingly entertaining. Samples: Decca's album with Ginger Rogers as Alice in Alice in Wonderland, and MGM's gentle satire...