Word: peake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bales declared that "the roots of Fascism are here, just as in Germany. All the things we think of as ills of society have come to a peak in the heart of the city...
...Dortch Longstreet, widow of famed Confederate General James Longstreet, cried: "Bury it [the bill] too deep for resurrection. Thus you can announce to all the world and to millions yet unborn that the old Georgia, the great Georgia of Hill and Stephens and Toombs, when Kennesaw Mountain was a peak of fire and Chickamauga a field of blood, still lives to claim an honorable place in the sisterhood of 48, constituting one nation, one people, America indivisible and unconquerable...
...exploration was not the main purpose. But some genuine exploring was done. The Navy's Antarctic expedition was primarily interested in 1) bolstering U.S. Antarctic claims and 2) training Navy personnel for Arctic operations. Notable findings: great, mountain-bordered bays never mapped before (see map); a newly discovered peak, Mt. X-Ray (15,000 ft.); plenty of bare rock, of interest to mineral hunters...
These photographs were taken by Maynard M. Miller '43 and William R. Latady, members of the seven-man expedition which scaled the peak, Alaska's second highest, last summer. Latady, a president of the HMC, left Cambridge recently on an Antarctic voyage with Commander Finn Ronney. His films, 2800 feet of them, are all 16mm color photos, covering all aspects of the climb...
...batch of returns came in last week. And U.S. industry found that, despite strikes, shortages and controls in 1946, actual profits lived up to the great expectations. The big boost came in the final quarter of 1946. Then, the Department of Commerce estimated, production had increased to such a peak that the national income (wages, rents, net corporate profits, etc.) was at a rate of $173 billions annually v. $164 billions for the whole year...