Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Including a favorite parlor game with your magazine reaches an all-time peak of Perfection. May the Quiz column (TIME, Jan. 22) prosper...
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...Stockholder Deeds exchanged his 16,000 shares for 34,720 of United Aircraft, then selling for $97 per share. Net value: $3,367,000. United's airmail contracts, plus Pratt & Whitney's prosperous engine business, plus the bull market, pushed the stock up to a peak of $162 in May 1929. Mr. Deeds's $40 became $5,624,000. He liquidated holdings worth $1,600,000, but his remaining stock, at last week's price, was still worth...
...spent a week in the Greek Monastery of St. Catherine at the foot of Mt. Sinai, on the traditional site of the burning bush (not "atop Mount St. Catherine'': Mount St. Catherine is the adjoining peak); and there learned the facts concerning the Codex Sinaiticus. These are at variance with the conventional story, which you summarize in your issue...
...total amount of U. S. currency in circulation. He proposed to have the U. S. spend $17,000,000,000 in this fiscal year and next. He foresaw a public debt by July 1935 of nearly $32,000,000,000- $6,000,000,000 higher than the post-War peak. The budget for fiscal 1934 (ending June 30 next) was presented to Congress in December 1932 by Herbert Hoover. That budget was revised by Franklin Roosevelt during the special session of Congress last spring. Last week it turned up again along with the budget for fiscal 1935, in the President...