Word: peake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Economy at Peak, Says Slichter...
Doctrinaire, too intellectual to attract the working classes, the Socialist Party declined steadily from its 1945 peak. It became overloaded with civil servants, postmen, schoolteachers and "leather-chair" (French equivalent of whitecollar) workers, and had little strength in the factories and fields. When the Socialists joined conservative governments, disillusioned supporters deserted to the Communists. In 1951 Mollet declared a policy of nonparticipation, and kept his Socialists out of government and in the posture of general opposition for four years...
...blizzard swept over the peak of Vermont's Mount Mansfield one day last week, a woman in a wheelchair pulled the veil from a two-ton marble sculpture fashioned like a huge dime. With the dedication of the mountaintop sculpture, a monument to the victims of the U.S.'s first polio epidemic,* the 1956 March of Dimes opened. There was the usual fanfare-the sort that has made Americans contribute more than three billion dimes since the drive began in 1938. But the 1956 kickoff was different: for the first time, the year was beginning with the certain...
...copper yearly, plus 3.000 tons of molybdenum as a byproduct. Thus Magma, which has only one other smelter (at Superior, Ariz.), will boost its total copper production to almost 100,000 tons yearly, jump from sixth to third place among U.S. producers (after Kennecott and Phelps Dodge). At peak production San Manuel will expand U.S. copper output by 8%, molybdenum...
...French musicomedienne; in Bougival, a suburb of Paris. With her foghorn voice, perky Parisian personality and famed legs ("les plus belles jambes de France," allegedly insured for $3 million), "Mees" rose from flower girl to become the most luminous star of the French music hall of her time. The peak of her long career came early in the century when she played at the Folies-Bergère, the Casino de Paris, the Moulin Rouge, made famous the song Mon Homme, and made an international hit of the apache dance, which she did with Maurice Chevalier ("He was more than...