Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, baffled John Public continued to burn 1,000,000 tons of coal a day. At Norfolk, whence much coal is transshipped by water to eastern cities, bunkers were nearly empty. Manhattan subways reduced service to the point where trains at peak hours carried four instead of the usual three passengers per seat. When all but a few A. F. of L. and non-union mines shut down last week, less than a month's supply for the U. S. remained aboveground, and much of that was hoarded by big users. Madam Secretary squeaked in Washington...
...York Times correspondent in Geneva since 1929, Streit has watched the League of Nations slip from its peak to virtual oblivion. Likening it to the American Articles of Confederation, he now feels that true democracies need the type of union effected by the 13 States...
Roewer and Calfee are both Seniors and may break into the lineup if they can acquire a bit more consistency. Calfee has started slowly and needs more work to bring his game up to its peak; Roewer has a long tee shot but he too wild. With more practice, either of these men could press Elbel and Dickerman for their positions...
...Northwest Coast, with Japan straight across the Pacific, awareness of war's imminence was at peak. People took its coming for granted. Goat-bearded young Roman Catholic Bishop Gerald Shaughnessy of Seattle preached loudly against U. S. participation. A British Consul and the journalist dean at Washington State University argued hotly, their nerves on edge, as to who should "shut up," Britain or the U. S. The man-in-the-street's preoccupation was: will the draft...
...proud and fond of their Maestro Mitropoulos, bought out every last seat of their huge Northrop Auditorium (capacity 4,800). The men in the orchestra followed their leader with a devotion bordering on worship. Visitors discovered that some of the most brilliant and spectacular U. S. conducting since the peak days of Stokowski and Toscanini was being done in snow-crusted Minneapolis. This year, with Mitropoulos' fame spreading to bigger cities, Minneapolis tied him securely with a three-year contract...