Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Federation of Labor. Coal operators bowed to its will, accepted its working and wage contracts. It negotiated the famed Jacksonville agreement (1924) for high wages in the bituminous fields. When it so much as threatened a strike, people shivered at the prospect of a coal shortage. At the peak of his power President Lewis, on a $12,000 per year salary, ruled some 500,000 Union miners...
...additional cooperation of three newly announced college polls on prohibition, the launching of several midwestern debating programs on the subject, and the preparation for a simultaneous release of voting results from more than a score of universities indicate that college sentiment on the Eighteenth Amendment, will reach its peak next week...
...report of the cases handled by the Bureau for the past fiscal year, that is for September 1929 to March 1930, showed that a new peak of work has been reached. At present 235 cases have been handled, a number never before equalled; while a few cases are still unsettled, there will be no new cases received until next fall...
...slit for another. The sacrament is administered. He passes each of the other six cells in the Death House on his way to a green door. The other six of the doomed wait in silence until the lights go dim, indicating that the prison dynamo is working at its peak. In the next two acts rebellion occurs. While machine guns clatter and sirens whine outside, the most desperate of the rebels threatens to shoot hostages in cold blood if means of escape are not granted. They are not, and he kills an assistant warder, and a turnkey. A lull comes...
...head of the expedition to climb unconquered Mount Everest. In Manhattan he was guest of honor at a "Tea Conference" of The Threefold Movement, of which he is London committee chairman. He told his hosts why no attempt has recently been made to scale the world's highest peak. Said he: "The Tibetans believe that their gods have been offended and are angry and so have requested us not to apply at present for leave to make another expedition." (The last expedition, in 1924, cost the lives of 13, including a Tibetan...