Word: peake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only in a few of the jokes and situations which, half a year ago when the discharge rate was at its peak, were either funny or poignant, and which now somehow misfire, that the passage of time is evident. For instance, in one of the first scenes two soldiers are talking of the wonders of being civilians again. One is remarking to the other how great it is to be wearing the ruptured duck when the second soldier breaks in to say, "that ain't no ruptured duck, that's a bird of paradise." When one was still getting used...
...exactly 7:55 the tattered U.S. flag fluttered slowly to the peak. Army brass-hats intoned the proper sentiments. Then down came the colors to half-mast. Last week, five years to the minute after the catastrophe of Pearl Harbor, the Army commemorated the day, with the same flag which had survived it. The Navy, which had suffered a great deal more, ignored the anniversary of the Japanese attack. Explained a spokesman: "We want to forget-not remember." *The ultimate arbiter is one Bertha K. Eastmond, a socially unknown, and determinedly anonymous woman in her 60s, who lives in seclusion...
Falling Concern. Western Europe's economy (and possibly her hopes for political democracy) hinged on making the Ruhr a going concern. In a peak pre-Hitler year (1929), Germany sent half her exports to western Europe, including Britain and Scandinavia, and most of these came from the great Ruhr basin. The western European steel industry depended on Ruhr coke; Dutch and Belgian ports depended on Ruhr traffic. In a single year the Ruhr produced 128,000,000 tons of coal, 16,000,000 tons of steel, 13,000,000 tons of pig iron. War-ravaged Britain Had neither...
...greatest prize left to modern exploration, thinks Andrews, is Amnyi Machen, a peak in eastern Tibet which may be higher than Everest. Pilots claim to have seen it from the air, but no one has measured...
...nearly normal in two days. Across the U.S., in the nick of time, manufacturers canceled orders for mass layoffs of more than 750,000. The Ford Motor Co., which had laid off 20,000, promptly called them back. The other auto companies, turning out cars at a postwar peak of 96,519 cars a week, canceled their shutdown orders, kept producing almost without interruption. But the strike may well cause a break in the all-important flow of supplies to automakers in a few weeks, force some of the plants to shut down then for a brief period...