Word: peake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Silent on her peak outside London town, blonde, swivel-hipped Marilyn Monroe, who is scheduled to meet Queen Elizabeth at the annual "command performance" later this month, did not seem displeased when told that M-G-M is "very interested" in having her star in the studio's planned film version of Feodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Although nobody would take Marilyn seriously when she said a couple of years ago that she wanted to play Grushenka,*M-G-M said last week, "The part is hers, if she doesn't want half the studio...
...homes watching the Democrats averaged 9 hrs. 39 min. each. For Republicans: 7 hrs. 22 min. The discrepancy is due primarily to the fact that the Democrats used afternoon and evening time for five days; the G.O.P. wound things up in four evenings, only one afternoon. ¶Peak viewing (17.8 million homes) for the Democrats came during the balloting for the presidential nomination and during the acceptance speeches (15.4 million). Republicans grabbed their peak audience (19.2 million homes) on Ike's arrival in San Francisco and during the President's acceptance speech (18.3 million...
...During the shorter G.O.P. week the total audience hit 15.6 million homes, for a listening average of 3 hrs. 23 min. per home. ¶Daily audiences ranged from 6.5 million to 13 million homes, averaging 10.2 million homes a day for the Democrats, 8.2 million for the Republicans. ¶Peak radio audiences (4 million) were clocked in during the early afternoon on the opening day of each convention...
...expenditure, came to an overwhelming $236 billion, which the GOP loudly hearalds as an indication that Rich America is growing richer and the standard of living is skyrocketing. The private debt for 1954, unfortunately, soared to its highest point in history. The non-farm debt reached an all-time peak, and the farm debt exceeded any since the bleak days of 1932. Naturally, the more you borrow the more you can spend. Under this truism, the Government and the public borrowed and spent more than they ever had before...
COAL EXPORTS will be pushed to new record by growing European demand. At current pace, booming overseas business will boost bituminous coal exports to 44 million tons in 1956, some 1,000,000 tons more than previous peak in 1947; anthracite coal is also keeping pace, topped 1,000,000 tons for first seven months of 1956 v. a mere 266,000 tons this time last year...