Word: peake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ascent. But the cumulative effect was beginning to make a half-dollar look like a quarter, and a quarter like a jukebox slug. By June 15 the cost of living was 58.5% higher than in the period from 1935-39. (The post-World War I rise reached a peak of 105.2% above 1914 prices.) Clothing had risen 101.6%; food, 96.1%; house furnishings, 78%; fuel...
...members of a Mountaineering Club expedition to scale Mt. Waddington, highest peak in British Columbia, brought back word yesterday of the sudden death of Charles Shiverick '50, killed by an avalanche in the 13,260 foot ascent...
...they waited for the followers whom Mother Ann prophesied would join them in the New World. In 1780, the followers began to show up. From then on, the Shakers slowly spread, settling together in communities called "families" from Maine to southwest Kentucky. Between 1840 and 1860, they attained their peak membership. Their peculiar religious practices caused the world's people to persecute them. Mother Ann's life is believed to have been shortened by a beating she took from a Massachusetts mob. But the Shakers' honesty and industry at last won them general respect...
...Truman reported civilian production now at a record rate of $225,000,000,000 a year and civilian employment at an all-time peak of more than...
...raises five to six million Pekin ducks a year-about half the total U.S. supply-duck farmers last week were half-wishing the Emperor had kept his ducks. Their feed costs were the highest ever, but the price of ducks had dropped 13% in a month. Now, at the peak of their season, Long Islanders are shipping some 200,000 ducks a week to market. But wholesale prices have fallen to 26? a pound, 2½? below the old OPA ceiling...