Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only partly effective in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Thereafter the situation eased off in those two states, except in Providence. The telephone Company published advertisements asking the public to bear such inconveniences as might occur and declaring that operators' wages had not been reduced from the war-time peak, that they received two weeks' vacation with full pay each year and other perquisites. The strike appeared to have been broken...
...drive" during Winter and Spring of 1924 is expected to bring in enough money to start work on the nave. No money will be spent at the present peak of building prices, however, and even with favorable conditions, 15 years would be necessary to complete the gigantic structure. Fortunately, cathedrals have souls, and cannot be made by machine. Ten thousand worshippers will be able to gather for prayer, in the completed house...
...long decline in the stock market from November, 1919, to August, 1921, bueketshops posing as brokerage houses in Wall Street made huge sums of money. But the business becomes immediately unprofitable on a rising stock market. That is why so many bucketshop failures occurred between August, 1921, and the peak of the high market last Fall. Rising prices did vastly more than any other factor to bankrupt these pretended brokerage concerns...
...capitals,"he asserts: "The Palace opening, far from being regarded as a ' comedown ' may be regarded as the climax to the handsome young Irishman's career. . . . Covent Garden is some shucks over there, but the Palace is a more important theatre, for it is the high peak of an avenue of art that radiates over the whole world, while opera is a narrow, limited, circumscribed old patch, like one of the Balkan States-it's great .to write about and lie about but it doesn't affect anything much...
Returning by Colorado Springs and Pikes Peak the party will complete the circuit with an inspection of the Rocky Mountain Park in Colorado...