Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan's Daily Advertiser advertised the U. S.'s first panorama show (Jerusalem) in 1790, "at Lawrence Hyer's Tavern, between the Gaol and the Tea Water Pump; the sight is most brilliant by candlelight." The U. S. panorama fad reached its peak in the 1850's, faded fast...
...Gardiner, Mont., a long day's drive up the Park-to-Park Highway will get you to Glacier, on the Canadian border. Glacier is the happy hunting ground for mountain climbers. (But at Mt. Rainier Park, Wash., you can climb over more ice, reach the third highest peak in the U. S.) In fact, so Alpine is Glacier's atmosphere that guest houses are called chalets. There are tepees of placid Blackfeet by mirrored lakes, lots of snow on the peaks, and the Government botanist keeps the hotels full of Indian paintbrush, tufted bear grass, harebell, Nancy-over...
...took The Literary Digest 30 years to roll up a circulation of 2,000,000 (see below). At the age of six months Ballyhoo reached its astounding peak, 1,900.000. Last week Ballyhoo celebrated its second birthday. Circulation: "about 300,000." Best evidence that the magazine still makes money is the fact that foxy Publisher George T. Delacorte Jr. continues to publish it. His stable shelters no boarders. Ballyhoo continues the stunt-which it has worn threadbare-of poking fun at advertisers, but in desultory fashion. Now it is largely a funny-picture book, and, if anything, less salacious than...
...maps of the War zones, and painstaking reviews of War events. When it was over the Digest could justly claim that it handled the War better than any other magazine. Its circulation was well over the million mark, and in the next few years hit a 2,000,000 peak, with a year's gross revenue of $11,000,000. Perhaps no non-fiction magazine could have maintained that circulation. In any case the Digest had circulation trouble, slumped to 1,000,000. Last year's total revenue: $3,000,000. Publisher Cuddihy looks much younger than...
...front-paged hot weather reports from other parts of the U. S. under the big, black headline: COLORADO IS COOLER. ... It announced plans for the Post's annual sponsorship of a pilgrimage to the Mount of the Holy Cross where religious services are held before a rocky peak on which late melting snows in two ravines form a gigantic white cross. . . . Post delivery trucks continued to block traffic on Champa Street. . . . Everything was as usual. There was nothing to remind the Post reader that notorious Publisher Frederick Gilmer Bonfils had been dead for four months (TIME, Feb. 13); nothing...