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Word: peakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official took the notes. Candidate MacDonald seemed to feel that he had proved something, something having to do with the fact that in his Prime Ministry the pound was forced off gold (TIME, Sept. 28). Fighting later in Seaham, his constituency, Candidate MacDonald faced crowds of chalky-faced, peak-nosed miners, some of whom sang insultingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Oh, Ramsay, Dear | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...never before made public, gave the actual size of the short interest. On May 25 it amounted to 5,589,000 shares, declined abruptly after the Hoover debt moratorium, rose to 4,480,000 shares on Sept. 11, stood at only 4,241,000 on Sept. 18. At its peak in May the short interest was .4% of the 1,305,516,000 shares listed on the Exchange. The long account carried by brokers on the same date was estimated at 59,000,000 shares or 10^ times the short account. These long accounts were the immediate selling threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: For the Defense | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

Upstairs, the old faculty room has been turned into a History and Government 1 reading room, which was used by an average of 155 men a day last week, the peak being reached on Sunday, when 464 were counted. From now on Freshmen will be allowed to take books out and use them in other parts of the building. The old Union library of about 1,000 volumes is still intact, and has been increased by the English A library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN TO HAVE CHANGES AT UNION | 10/23/1931 | See Source »

During the War the A. F. of L.'s membership doubled to its highest peak (4,078,740). President Samuel Gompers was taken abroad to be presented to George V of England and to sit (unofficially) at the Peace Conference. In the light of subsequent developments, his critics feel that he might have shaped U. S. Labor into a great political and economic power by taking advantage of stressful times instead of trading a great opportunity for a slightly fatter pay envelope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Taxation v. Strikes | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

...this month they would issue, in the same envelope, a four-in. disc containing music and advertising matter. Name of this new medium is "Durium Junior." For more than two years Durium Products has been selling flexible, shatterproof, one-side recordings of popular tunes, on news and cigar stands. Peak sales have reached 500,000 weekly, at 15? per disc; but the average is about 200,000. Formerly these tenin. discs played for only three min.; now, through a new "micro-channel" process (more grooves), introduced three or four months ago, they play for five min. The Durium Junior will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Durium Junior | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

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