Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the magazine had begun to deteriorate editorially, 1920 found it at the peak (up to then) of its fortunes and with about one million circulation. (It had been bought from the Collier estate by Crowell Publishing Co.) Then came evil days?a business depression, a paper shortage, a printers' strike. For a few weeks the magazine actually failed to appear. By 1922 Collier's, definitely inferior in content, had tumbled to th place in general magazine advertising. In two years its revenues fell off more than 80%. Making matters worse, into the 5f field came Liberty...
Last week the Treasury published income tax figures for 1929, the year Prosperity both reached its peak and crashed to Depression. Prime fact revealed was that in the golden year of 1929, no less than 504 citizens had incomes of $1,000,000 or more and paid 18% of the total Federal income tax. In this millionaire group were 36 super-millionaires whose income exceeded...
...owes its citizens about $16,000,000,000. That is the Public Debt. Its War peak was $27,000,000,000. A reduction of $11,000,000,000 in twelve years gives citizen-creditors ample confidence in their Government's ability to pay some day. This debt is roughly divided into three classes: 1) bonds totaling $12,700,000,000; 2) short-term obligations (Treasury notes, certificates, bills) amounting to $2,600,000,000; 3) miscellaneous reserve funds (i. e. for the Bonus, for employe retirement, etc.) of $750,000,000. The smartest fiscal brains in the Federal service...
Stubbornly resisting all efforts at dislodgment is the brownstone mid-Victorian Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas. On the central peak of this church's façade is a curious coffin-shaped slab of brown stone. For years drivers of sightseeing buses have trumpeted to visitors the legend that the slab is a coffin, that it contains the remains of the donor of the church who had a mortal fear of worms. Actually the slab is merely an ornament. The Collegiate Church was built by no individual but by the Collegiate Corporation...
...annual contributions have ranged from $750 the first year to $7,549 in 1928-29, the peak year. In all, the Library has received from the Friends the sum of $24,777.50. This does not include the unprecedentedly generous gifts toward the purchase of the library of William Augustus White '63. For this purpose, one hundred persons subscribed the sum of $191,965, which enabled the Library to acquire the major portion of the books needed from Mr. White's collection of Elizabethan literature. Most of these donors were already members of the Friends and have continued their friendship...