Word: peaked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Small Fire. In World War II, John helped push the company to a peak employment of 61,685 (today's: 10,000). Their Winchester plant in New Haven developed the famed U.S. Mi carbine in 13 days, turned out nearly 500,000 Mis, along with more than 500,000 Garands. The Olins ran the St. Louis Ordnance plant, turned out a total of over six billion loaded rounds of ammunition. At war's end Franklin Olin stepped down as president (at 89, he is still a director), and John, long the big wheel in fact, took over...
...peak strength of 5,000 men, Macao's defenders crowd the little colony so that it appears armed to the teeth. But, as one high officer observed: "It's just a face-saving army. We don't have enough men to stop anything at the border, and too many for the simple job of keeping order in the city...
...malaria parasites (tiny protozoa of the genus Plasmodium) spend part of their life cycle in female Anopheles mosquitoes. The mosquito picks up the parasites from infected humans, nurtures them and injects them into fresh victims. The parasites run through the bloodstream of their victim, causing periodic fevers at the peak of their reproductive cycle; many lodge in the spleen, causing local pain...
...Alarmed at the number of businessmen who were dying off at the peak of their careers, a Great Neck, N.Y. group last week started a nationwide campaign called "Relax, U.S.A.," to save and lengthen lives. Take time out every so often to recharge the batteries, said the group, by 1) merely drowsing; 2) leisurely puffing on a cigar; 3) looking at the trees and the clouds...
...Master Builder. During World War II he had a peak of $150 million worth of buildings under way at one time, spent a year completing the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park. "Sometimes," says McShain, "there's money in such jobs, sometimes there isn't. But I'd rather break even on a monumental building than make a million on an uninspired warehouse." Nevertheless, McShain did well enough to buy the 600-room Barclay Hotel on Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square, to become part owner of the 400-room Claridge Hotel in Atlantic City...