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Word: peake (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ministry of Health talked soothingly to keep down public alarm, medical officers quietly shut swimming pools and children's cinema shows, called off children's holiday trips, discouraged public meetings. But the epidemic has continued to rise, and doctors fear that it has not yet reached its peak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Up & Down | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

Prior to the swollen enrollments of the Law School at war, the number of students from the middle 'thirties on showed a downward trend from the peak year of 1936-37 a checkback yesterday showed. At this point the total...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law School's Vanguard Of Registrants Starts Off Roll Toward Peak Total | 8/21/1947 | See Source »

...spinach is diamond dust. Last year, Vogue and Harper's made more money than ever (for Conde Nast Publications and Hearst, respectively). Their circulations (Harper's, 225,000, plus 39,000 British; Vogue, 304,000, plus 100,700 British and 12,000 French) are at an alltime peak. Recent issues have been skinnier than last year's ad-fat ones, and to cut costs Vogue recently cut its output from 24 issues a year to 20, boosting its price from 35? to match Harper's (50? a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Stylocrats | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...Industry's argument against the expansionists is based on the economics of production. Because of the scrap shortage, the industry cannot even maintain full use of its present capacity. But the current 85 million-ton production rate, industry points out, is 20 million tons greater than the 1929 "peak prosperity" year. The present steel shortage is largely due to demands that accumulated during the war and that, once satisfied, will slack off. Moreover, the shortage would be intensified by removing from present supply the five million tons of steel it would take to build plants to produce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Debate | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...materials and absenteeism due to the heat swelled the total of idle automotive workers to more than 80,000, slowed the industry's production to a weekly total of 79,699 cars and trucks (compared to 97,712 the week before and 108,472 at the postwar peak in March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Aug. 18, 1947 | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

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