Word: peake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Dale Junta unexpectedly started at first singles, handily defeating North Carolina's ace, Bob Bortner, 6-4 6-4. Junta wore a corset to help support his injured back, and although he was not playing at his peak, his big game was too good for the Tarheel captain...
Shue has performed very well whenever he has broken into the lineup this spring, and neither centerfielder John Getch nor rightfielder Mo Balboni has been playing at his peak recently...
...prime rate for industrial loans is still at 4%, only ½% below the boom's peak, and keeps all other rates high...
SMALL-PLANE BOOM will lift industry to peak profits this year. In first quarter, Cessna Aircraft enjoyed most prosperous period in 31-year history, saw after-tax earnings jump 86% over a year ago to $1,586,000. Beech Aircraft's earnings climbed to $907,500 from $756,000 in last year's first quarter...
Died. Frank Kent, 80, Baltimore Sun and syndicated columnist (The Great Game of Politics), author (Political Behavior, A History of the Democratic Party); of uremic poisoning; in Baltimore. Kent was a registered Democrat, but his column-which at its peak in the '30s ran in well over 100 papers-was bitterly anti-New Deal, involved him in several celebrated controversies, e.g., with Harry Hopkins, to whom Kent attributed the statement: "We will tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect." Kent came out strongly for Eisenhower six months before the Republican Convention of 1952, continued to write...