Word: peake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dams and dikes would form a basin which could contain eight billion gallons of water. During slack energy periods, electricity generated at other Con Ed plants would be used to pump water into the reservoir; during peak periods, this water would be released to generate electricity to meet the increased demand. Ironically, five kilowatts of energy produced elsewhere would be needed to obtain four kilowatts from the Storm King project...
...fruit crop were strawberries (which could be producing in three years), the hired migrant labor to pick a crop that large would cost the owner several thousand dollars a year. Tree crops such as apples, cherries or peaches take longer than three years to reach the peak of production...
...laundress and baby sitter before her choir solos won her a job on a crosscountry gospel crusade. Chicago remained her home until the end. There she married and divorced twice (no children), opened a beauty parlor and a florist shop with her earnings ($100,000 a year at her peak...
...broadly, radiate friendliness, probably even compliment the lawmakers on their high dedication to the common good. Yet the ceremonial show of civility, demanded by custom, will scarcely conceal the fact that this is an election year, and that relations between the Hill and the White House are at a peak of partisanship unmatched since Harry Truman ran against a "do-nothing" 80th Congress...
...South Viet Nam, Saigon forces took up defensive positions, primarily astride infiltration routes and around major cities and military bases, to await a sizable flare-up in Communist activity that is expected to peak at the time of the Tet holidays, which fall in mid-February. Meanwhile the North Vietnamese moved mobile missile launchers right up to South Viet Nam's northern frontiers, and the air war continued. The U.S. last week conducted its seventh "protective reaction" strike of the year against SAM sites in North Viet...