Word: peake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pounds were donated for welfare use (e.g., school lunches) at home and abroad, and some 300 million pounds were sold, some at reduced prices for export. Last week Benson announced the startling results of his efforts: the U.S. Government is fresh out of surplus butter, will go into the peak milk-producing season beginning April 1 without an unsold pound on its shelves...
...news from Moscow concerned a dead Joseph Stalin (see FOREIGN NEWS), there was intelligence of another kind about a very live Premier Nikolai Bulganin,, At a party at the Danish embassy, which Nikita Khrushchev was too busy to attend, Bulganin roared toasts to every toastable cliche. At one excited peak he grabbed a martini and fervently cried: "Eisenhower opened the martini road in Geneva! We sometimes drank with him, in the intervals, in martinis to peace and friendship in the world." Feeling extremely euphoric, Bulganin then lurched over to a U.S. military attache, guffawed and grabbed his ear, droolishly whispered...
...Street's confidence last week was echoed throughout the U.S. economy. The Federal Reserve's annual Survey of Consumer Finances showed that people never felt better about their economic prospects, planned to buy record, or near record amounts of almost everything. Of 2,800 families sampled, a peak of 9.6% planned to buy new houses, 8.2% planned to buy new cars, 28% were in the market for furniture or major appliances, and 22.6% were planning sizable home improvements...
...bonds are annually traded on the American Stock Exchange, where they move up and down according to the temperature of U.S.-Soviet relations. The Nazi-Soviet pact in 1939 sent the $1,000 bonds to $1.86, their bottom; the Yalta honeymoon with the U.S. (1945) raised them to a peak $220. They dropped to $20 in the 1950 cold war, rose to $125 on the strength of last summer's Geneva spirit, are currently quoted at $53-75-Periodically, the Soviets talk about honoring the obligation. In 1933, to gain U.S. recognition, Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinoff even promised...
...knife-like junior also tied his own Crimson mark for the 50 this afternoon, sprinting to a 22.4. But again, against the amazing Blue this superior time was good enough for only a third place. Dyer once more pushed Aubrey and Gideonse to the peak performances of their careers, as Aubrey tied the Yale and Yale pool record with...