Word: peake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...billions on the dowry. But the State Department's own record raised doubt that this was always so. After V-J day, it concedes, China's economic situation was "surprisingly good and contained many elements of hope." As late as 1947, the Nationalists were "at the very peak of their military successes...
...Nevertheless, there was little doubt that business was on the downgrade. The Federal Reserve Board's production index, which had stood at around 166% of the 1935-39 average in late June, was estimated to have dropped another five points, off 34 points from 1948's postwar peak. In early July, the Department of Commerce reported, unemployment had edged over the 4,000,000 mark for the first time since 1942. Though there were an estimated 59.7 million at work, more than in any year except 1948, in some areas there were long lines of the jobless collecting...
Officials clung to the hope that this year, unlike last, the crippling disease might reach a peak at an early date, then quickly taper...
...industry, king of last year's profit parade, was still doing all right. But with crude oil once more in surplus and prices again competitive, the industry continued to slide from its boomtime peak. Phillips Petroleum's net dropped 40% from $36.5 million to $21.9 million, Socony-Vacuum's from an estimated $71 million to $47 million, down...
...will gross an estimated $700,000. All told, his 5,800-acre farm, run like a factory, is a big business, with an annual payroll of $250,000, 350 workers, two $35,000 mint distilleries, 54 tractors and 150 buses, trucks, jeeps and other engines that weekly burn, in peak season, over 9,000 gallons of gasoline...