Word: peake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lines around the Square reached peak length at mid-afternoon, when 250 students formed a grand march that wound from the back of the Coop into the street, and then up two flights of stairs until it reached the Valhalla of the second floor book stalls. Book-seekers waited 2 1/2 hours...
...Dolan, boss of the Dominion's Travel Bureau, last week: An "abnormal season. . . . We ought to hit . ". . $230 to $240 million this year." That was less than the $300 million expected by some Canadians earlier this year (TIME, Aug. 4), but it would still easily top the peak of $214 million spent by 21,282,000 visitors from...
...thought that they could count on rising.prices, even though corn is now 30% higher than in 1920's boom. Until recently, the U.S. has not been exporting any more food than it did after World War I. But in July and August, grain exports increased to an alltime peak. The traders also put the blame on the blundering way the Government bought. Instead of buying only in dull markets, it hopped in & out of the market, paying no attention to the available supply of spot grain...
Following the system established last year of quartering overflow newcomers on the basketball floor of the Indoor Athletic Building, 122 Freshmen and returnees were bedded down in the emergency dormitory last Wednesday night, and by last night the crowed totalled close to 180, which officials estimated as the peak load...
...most acute congestion to be relieved by House expansion was in the Indoor Athletic Building, which last Friday hit a peak of 176 inhabitants that slipped down to 159 late last night. Nineteen men had been moved out by University officials, four more had been moved in, and an untold number--officially logged in--had departed for friends rooms or hotels until College rooms could be found for them...