Word: peake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many appliance makers were feeling the effect of the expiration of consumer credit controls (installment credit rose to an alltime peak of $9.3 billion in July). General Electric Co.'s President Charles E. Wilson said that the outlook was bright (see below) and that G.E.'s appliance business had picked up more than it usually does in the summer. Other appliance makers, who had cut back for lack of orders in the spring, were once more allocating some goods and calling back furloughed workers...
...Previous peak: 621,910 units in April...
...guerrilla fighters. When Singapore was taken, he and a few other Britons were trapped. Chapman was one of a handful that survived. He came through because he was tough and knew life in the wilderness (in 1937, he had become the first man to scale the 23,930-ft. peak of Chomolhari in the Himalayas, was already a famed Arctic explorer), because he had a sense of humor, and because he kept himself busy plaguing the Japs. Writes Chapman: "[The jungle] provides any amount of fresh water, and unlimited cover for friend as well as foe . . . It is the attitude...
...early in the year. But even so, there were 13,000 who had escaped the disease for every one who was stricken. Comparing 1949 with former years, health officers in New York City, Detroit and Chicago saw reason to hope that the outbreak was at or near its peak, and would soon taper...
Usually the peak comes in the 36th week of the calendar year or the 26th week of the "polio year" (which begins after the low point in mid-March). This year, since the disease got off to a flying start in an early hot spell, the peak may well come early. In the South, where polio strikes sooner, new cases reported have already leveled off and should decline from now on; the North may have to wait three or four weeks for a drop...