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Word: peakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such increases, which might be made retroactive on 1932 incomes, would put taxes back to their Wartime peak. They represented an approximate upping of 50% in rates for taxpayers with incomes of $10,000 per year or less. Under this Democratic plan, surtaxes would not be changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Remote Control (Cont'd) | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

...Boston, a bank vice president at 29. At the turn of the century he marched down to Manhattan as an officer in a small bank that he later absorbed. When he was picked for president in 1911 Chase National Bank boasted total assets of $106.000,000. At the peak of its prosperity two years ago the total was $2,697,000,000 -a record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wiggin Out | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

...farewell salute, after 40 years' service. Death had cut the ranks of Confederate veterans to 4,500. Depression had forced the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which kept the magazine alive in recent years, to withdraw its support. Circulation of the final issue was 6,000. Its peak had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: End of a Veteran | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

...seats empty, according to figures published last week by the Department of Commerce. The Department's analysis was begun October 1931, showed an average of 39% seat-occupancy for that month. The average dipped to 28% for the bad-weather month of December, climbed steadily to a 53% peak last August, dropped to 43% in October. Average for 13 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Empty Seats | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...Maintenance Department is one of the busiest in the University. Often they have crews of workmen of different types at work about the buildings, which reach, as a whole, at their peak, to over 300. This includes 90 to 110 men on the grounds crew, 70 to 100 painters, and 50 to 100 carpenters, as well as many other specialists, such as window washers and chimney cleaners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winter Board Walks Require Crew of 25 Men Over a Week To Place Them--Maintenance Staff Keeps 300 Men Busy | 12/8/1932 | See Source »

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