Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Street Journal this week headlined: BUSINESS IN 15-WEEK SIDEWISE MOVE; BREAK EXPECTED TO BE ON 'UP' SIDE. Evidence to support this conclusion abounded. Such sensitive indexes as scrap steel and commodity prices were up. Steel production at 55.1% of capacity was near the year's peak. Automobile output rose, National Distillers Products Corp. filed the first large industrial bond issue ($22,500,000) since November. And the Dow-Jones industrial stock averages climbed to 149.49, a gain of 13 points from the year's low on January...
Many feel also that the new line will fail because the bands involved are at or past their peak, and all new material has been pretty well sewed up by Decca and the rejuvenated Columbia Broadcasting Co.-Brunswick outfit. Signs of the intense competition brewing can be seen in the plans of the latter to keep its thirty-five cent Vocalion line, drop the price of Brunswick labels to fifty cents, and put the Columbia classical series out at seventy-five cents. Looks as though the record public is going to be able to just sit around and have better...
...pays an annual tax bill of about $65,000 on property not used for educational purposes. And under two agreements, one signed in 1912 and the other in 1928, the University has voluntarily paid on legally tax-exempt holding, taxes totaling $160,700. The voluntary payments reached a peak of $24,216 in 1931, and amounted to just over $10,000 last year...
...surprising that there has been a great deal of attention paid to the directing of the picture; the dramatic course of events dominates every other aspect of the picture. Having taken some time to set the stage, Mr. Hitchcock then builds up the story to a high peak of action and suspense from which it never drops till the very end. The characters, passengers on a continental train, are carefully molded to fit the plot. Margaret Lockwood and Dame Whitty are particularly good; and a certain amount of comic relief is supplied by two English cricket fans who are futilely...
...Latest risers are on the Pacific Coast, where only 3.4% tune in at six. By 9 a. m. 25% of the radios in every U. S. village and farm are blaring; between 12 and 1 p. m. 28.1% are going; at 8:00 p. m. the peak is reached, with 61.7% of all sets in operation. By 10 p. m. most of the listeners are off to bed. But during the average day 89% of all rural U. S. radios have been turned on for a total of four hours, 47 minutes...