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Word: peakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sale 105,000 shares of common stock at about $3.25 per share. The company has an authorized issue of 500,000 shares, of which 350,000 will be outstanding. As an inducement to buy, the company can cite a $1,684,000 volume of gross business last year. Peak year was 1929, with $2,100,000. Over-the-counter sales will be handled by Pringle, Price & Co. Largest stockholders will be Mrs. MacDougall, Son Allan, and Chain Store Fund, Inc., an investment trust which bought a minority interest in the MacDougall business two years ago. With new capital Mrs. MacDougall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Frugality, Inc. | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

...five, his great vision four years later. In it he saw a mythological panorama of his people's fate, was promised magical powers to save. He was carried to the centre of the world ("anywhere is the centre of the world") on the top of Harney Peak in the black Hills. ". . . Beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw. ... I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heavenly Blues | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...Buffalo); to the Sioux, Igimou Chicakala (Little Cat). He first went to interview Black Elk to get tales of great Chief Crazy Horse; returned for an extended stay to write down the old man's own story. At its conclusion the party went to the top of Harney Peak. There the medicine man delivered his final lamentation for his people; from a droughty sky he called rain to accompany his tears. Black Elk's friend Standing Bear illustrates his visions in his heaven-kissing book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heavenly Blues | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

While Professor Compton is having a high time abroad, Dr. William Francis Gray Swann, president of the American Physical Society and director of Philadelphia's Bartol Research Foundation, will take to the top of Mount Washington or Pike's Peak a cosmic ray "telescope" whose construction he revealed last week. It consists of a lead cylinder. At each end is a hollow steel sphere filled with nitrogen compressed

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Millikan's Cosmic Rays | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

...Cord's name is as well known on Wall Street as in the Midwest. The stock's astonishing gyrations have given rise to many tales of pools and corners, most of them untrue. Mr. Cord declares he often goes three days without even looking at the market. At the peak of the bull market he was elected a director of an investment trust. At his first (and last) meeting the directors were discussing what to do with their stocks. Errett Cord was silent until someone asked him what he thought. He answered: "I think the stuff you own is lousy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Motion For Sale | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

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