Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...company's unfilled tonnage as of Aug. 31 was eagerly watched for in Wall Street. The future business revealed by the Company's report was 5,414,663 tons, as against 5,910,763 for July 31; 6,386,261 for June 30; and 7,403,332 for the peak of demand on March 31, 1923. The high record since the War is 11,118,468 tons on July 31, 1920. This decrease of 496,000 tons, though not unexpected, was nevertheless disappointing...
...whole movement toward lower gasoline prices was caused, of course, by overproduction of crude. Governor McMaster's action proving merely the occasion for the drop. Since crude production should pass its peak in California within three months, the present price cutting is likely to prove only a flurry in the general movement of prices. The daily average gross crude oil production in the United States, however, increased 10,350 barrels for the week ending Aug. 11, with a total of 2,251,250 barrels...
...Bradstreet index number for wholesale commodities reached its recent peak in March, 1923, with the figure of 151.2, and has been falling steadily ever since, as follows: April, 151.1; May, 148.1; June, 145.0; July, 141.9, and August...
Macready's mark was 34,509.5 feet. Lecointe rose 35,432 feet (6.773 miles). Mt. Everest, Earth's highest peak, measures 29,002 feet. In 1901 two Germans ascended 34,500 feet in a balloon, a standing record...
...aforesaid $4.40 and the production thus makes money. Though the duck incident herein outlined may seem farfetched, such is not the case. During the current month a Western press agent, exploiting a cinema of whaling days, planted a full-sized cardboard whale on the top of Pike's Peak, crawled inside it with a hundred siphons, projected the liquid in a towering stream through the creature's nose. The mystified populace stampeded from the plains to view the curiosity. The papers carried columns. My, how the money rolled in! Naturally, the papers are wary; so suspicious, in fact...