Word: peake
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city health department estimated the population at 7,782.000. Contributing a little spot of cheer in the midst of the city's fiscal gloom, officials reported last week that the take from parking meters is on the rise. In March the total came to $726,414, a new peak for any month. That was $207,772 more than in March...
From the Mountain. After that first, promising nighttime test, Keyes and his associates decided to try their diode light at longer range. They set up shop on the top of Mount Wachusett, a modest peak (alt. 2,006 ft.) 34 miles from Lincoln Lab. The first long-distance experiments were not successful, mostly because of hastily assembled equipment. After many months of work, an improved transmitter pointed at Lincoln Laboratory from Mount Wachusett. The tiny gallium arsenide diode, only 0.01 in. in diameter, was placed precisely at the focus of a 5-in. reflecting telescope that concentrated its infra...
...combatting the boll weevil and other crop-destroying insects by sterilizing male insects in laboratories, then releasing them in the fields to compete with other males for the available females. The U.S., says an Agriculture Department publication, is "in the foothills of technical progress in agriculture-not at the peak...
...show, in effect, plunged the U.S. realist tradition temporarily in the shadows. It was not until the 1950s, when the powerful wave of abstraction reached its peak, that the U.S. asserted itself strongly on the international stage. But if the show shattered Ashcan hopes of becoming the dominating force in U.S. art, those who called the U.S. provincial were obviously passing judgment too soon. From the older generation of Americans in the show, Albert Ryder's paintings live on to haunt posterity. Of those who were in their middle years, Walt Kuhn went on to do first-rate work...
Shift & Run. Fortunately for Ford, McNamara's methods also left it operating at peak efficiency and able to move quickly to correct its products' weaknesses. Racing is designed to bring the speed worshipers back to Ford; the 1964 T-Birds, Falcons and Comets will boast drastic styling changes to attract lovers of change. Both the Ford and Lincoln-Mercury divisions are paying dealers rebates of from $75 to $165 per car for every sale over set quotas. "We're almost through shifting gears," says a top Ford official. "We're going to give...