Word: peake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Devil you depict could not seduce even Lena the Hyena. Nothing like him was ever kicked out of Heaven. Fact is the Devil is good-looking ... he has a Clark Gable mustache and a widow's peak like Robert Taylor...
...reduction in the debt was achieved largely by applying funds from the Treasury's cash balance, which was at a peacetime peak of $25.96 billion on Feb. 28, 1946. Since this huge cash balance was the result of 1) the sudden end of the war and the consequent cutting of military and naval expenses below budget appropriations, and 2) the greatly oversubscribed Victory Loan Drive of August-December 1945, the chances of similar debt reductions in years to come...
Barring the unexpected, both the nation and its colleges look forward to a "boom" year. National income hovers around the $200,000,000,000 a year mark, and college enrollment is at its peak. Both federal and college administrators are concerned with the problem of providing living space to satisfy the increased demand. The impact of high prices is felt as severely by the colleges as by any other group in the national structure. In Lehman Hall, Aldrich Durant and his assistant wizards grapple with the same problem that confronts the conscientious manufacturer--how to maintain the quality...
...resolution would actually give the Labor Government control of the coal miners who could make or break Britain. Last week, at the peak of the wildcat coal strike that started at Grimethorpe in Yorkshire, 70,000 miners were out of the pits. Already the strike had cost Britain 400,000 tons of precious coal. When the National Coal Board asked Grimethorpe miners to increase their daily stint (from digging 21 feet of coal daily to 23 feet) the strike began...
Requiem. U.S. exports, which started to drop in June, fell another 7% in July, said the Department of Commerce, and are now down 19% from their May peak. The Department of Commerce expected exports to drop further as the world ran out of U.S. dollars. Latest dollar conservation move: Australia, following the British and French lead, imposed a ban on some 32 products ranging from washing machines to tires...