Word: peake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week from one peak, hidden in rain and fog, fishermen heard an explosion that echoed from cliff to cliff. The Kvitbjoern, bound from Tromso to Oslo, burned for several hours. None of its 27 passengers and eight crewmen survived. It was the worst disaster ever for the Norwegian Airlines (headed by Admiral Byrd's old pilot, Bernt Balchen...
Meanwhile, there were signs that the Media might yet run into heavy weather of a different sort. On her first trip, she had carried almost a full complement of passengers but only 887 tons of freight -13% of her capacity. And with the peak of the summer tourist season past, there was a noticeable drop in eastbound passengers. For the first time since the war, there were vacant bookings even on the Europe-bound Queens...
...high taxes to cut public debt, got it into the habit of trying to stay in the black. The U.S. has managed surpluses in 95 of its 158 years, but has never been entirely out of debt. Lowest point of the national debt was $37,513 (in 1835); the peak was $279.2 billion (Feb. 28, 1946). Current national debt: $258 billion...
...tennis season was at its peak, and there was plenty of work for the champ to do. There was also some relaxing to do, and Big Jake finally found time to read the last pages of a thriller-diller western called Magic of a Killer's Name. Dexer the Cowboy and his sawed-off sidekick. Long Tom, were blowing some varmints to kingdom come...
Alcoa had no reason to deplore the price cuts. In a sense, the three competitors are fighting the same fight. The aluminum industry emerged from the war with a capacity of more than 1 billion pounds a year-well over three times its prewar peak...